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Professor Adrian Porch of the School of Engineering and his research team are developing a device that they believe will help millions of people with diabetes.
At present, diabetic patients have to test their blood glucose levels several times a day----this process requires blood collection. However, Professor Adrian Porch strives to introduce a new type of blood glucose monitoring instrument that relies on non-invasive techniques. The new device is currently undergoing clinical trials and will utilize a monitor that is carefully attached to the arm or body with glue, and no blood collection is required except during the initial correction. Once calibrated, it will monitor blood glucose using sensors that send data to a computer or mobile phone application.
This will open up new prospects for allowing diabetics to monitor blood glucose continuously throughout the day.
The project received 1 million grants from the Wellcome Trust and was implemented in 2008 and may appear throughout the market in the next five years.
“The monitor uses microwaves and is very safe,†explains Professor Adrian Porch. "The level of microwaves is very, very low. If you think about mobile phones, its microwave level is a thousand times lower than that."
Together with Professor Adrian Porch, Professor Stephen Luzio from Swansea University School of Medicine has used diabetes patients for clinical trials and plans for further testing during the summer.
He said: "Patients are very keen on this. One of the biggest problems for patients measuring blood sugar is that they are not willing to pierce their fingers, so they are very interested in this device."
More than 3.5 million people in the UK are diagnosed with diabetes, and more than a million more people in the world have diabetes.
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