Blood Testing
Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, affects 2-3 million children and young adults in America. These people must suffer from repeated blood sample collection to assess blood sugar levels. These tests are painful, inconvenient, and expensive – the annual costs for lancets and blood sugar testing strips are approaching $2,000. Such repeated blood testing, especially for children, is clearly undesirable.
Breath Testing
Recent research has shown that measurement of multiple exhaled biomarkers can be used to determine blood sugar levels. Breath testing offers the promise of a much less invasive and overall less expensive diabetes monitoring method. In addition, using isotopically-labeled tracer molecules, it should also be possible to investigate specific metabolic processes, and this can provide a new tool for fundamental research into learning more about metabolic disorder diseases like diabetes
Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, affects 2-3 million children and young adults in America. These people must suffer from repeated blood sample collection to assess blood sugar levels. These tests are painful, inconvenient, and expensive – the annual costs for lancets and blood sugar testing strips are approaching $2,000. Such repeated blood testing, especially for children, is clearly undesirable.
Breath Testing
Recent research has shown that measurement of multiple exhaled biomarkers can be used to determine blood sugar levels. Breath testing offers the promise of a much less invasive and overall less expensive diabetes monitoring method. In addition, using isotopically-labeled tracer molecules, it should also be possible to investigate specific metabolic processes, and this can provide a new tool for fundamental research into learning more about metabolic disorder diseases like diabetes
