A mobile platform for non-invasive diabetes screening

The global burden of diabetes is profound, with over 400 million cases worldwide. Middle-income countries, such as those in Southeast Asia, are especially affected as diabetes becomes a major public health issue. In particular, India has a record number of people diagnosed with diabetes, 8.8% of the adult population. Despite the benefits of early prevention and treatment, awareness of the disease remains low, with health workers unable to keep up with the demands of the population. In addition to simply screening for diabetes, it is also important to assess a person's severity of diabetes so that the proper intervention and therapy can be delivered. Current screening techniques rely on blood tests, often fingerprick blood glucose tests, but even though portable glucose meters are fairly inexpensive ($10 USD), they require a reliable stock of glucose test strips which are relatively costly ($0.05 USD) and are often in short supply.

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Master

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2019

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• Chauhan, Shivani,M. Eng.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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• Richard R. Fletcher.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124237

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