Glucose monitors reveal early diabetes warning signs missed by blood tests

medicalxpress.com

3 pointsssgodderidge2 comments

According to Wikipedia, glucose monitors have sensors under the skin. Seems a little invasive to do as a screening test.

I wonder if you could use spectroscopy to analyze glucose content in blood? For example, take an existing oxygen meter design and tune it to a different wavelength to detect glucose instead of oxygen.

The sensor has a small thread that is completely painless actually! Not invasive at all. Beside the small device stuck to the skin, you cannot tell you have the sensor on at all.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com