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isaac: New, Easier Way to Monitor Diabetes

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By on Diabetes Family Health

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — More than 38 million Americans have diabetes and regular blood sugar monitoring is crucial. A team of researchers is working on a new way to do that, and it’s as easy as taking a breath.

A new small device is paving the way for big changes in diabetes management.

“The device that we are developing can just monitor your breath, like you know you exhale, like a breathalyzer,” said Mangilal Agarwal, Director of the Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute and Professor & Interim Chair of Biomedical Engineering & Informatics for the Luddy School of Informatics, Computer, and Engineering at Indiana University Indianapolis.

It’s called isaac. It was developed by PreEvnt and researchers with Indiana University. It captures molecules in the breath tied to blood glucose levels. The idea was inspired by diabetes alert dogs.

“I was curious, not how dogs are smelling, but what they are smelling,” Prof. Agarwal told Ivanhoe.

The goal is to create an easier, non-invasive way to monitor glucose, which could be especially helpful for children with diabetes. The prototype they developed is for high glucose levels. It’s heading to clinical trials soon.

“But parallelly we also want to work towards fine-tuning and developing sensors that can capture the combination of molecules that correlates to hypoglycemia. So it will work for low blood sugar,” Prof. Agarwal explained.

Real-time results making a real difference in managing diabetes.

The device is named after inventor Bud Wilcox’s grandson, Isaac, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was two. After reading an article by Prof Agarwal, Bud reached out to collaborate. The device has been designed for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, as well as those with prediabetes. Pending the results of the clinical trials and FDA approval, the team hopes to market the device as soon as possible.

Contributors to this news report include: Lindsay Daily, Producer; Kyle Fisher, Videographer; Chuck Bennethum, Editor.

Sources:

https://news.iu.edu/live/news/45915-innovative-breathalyzer-device-could-improve

https://diabetes.org/about-diabetes/statistics/about-diabetes

https://preevnt.com/

* For More Information, Contact:             Mangilal Agarwal

Director of Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute and Professor & Interim Chair of Biomedical Engineering & Informatics for the Luddy School of Informatics, Computer, and Engineering at Indiana University Indianapolis

agarwal@iu.edu

(317) 278-9792

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