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Forward-looking: While the health-monitoring abilities of wearables have advanced enormously in recent years, there's one thing that still eludes these devices: measuring glucose levels, aka blood sugar. But researchers believe they have created a ring that does just that by analyzing a wearer's sweat. And it can also measure alcohol levels, uric acid, and more.
For the millions of people with type 1 diabetes (and some with type 2 and other forms of the disease) who must monitor their glucose levels, the only options are regular painful finger-pricks or a constant glucose monitor (CGM), which can be expensive, awkward, sometimes inaccurate, and invasive.
But hope could be on the horizon, thanks to engineers at the University of California, San Diego. The prototype ring they created uses sweat to track chemical biomarkers.
