Home » Metro » Health and Science
App helps predict risk of diabetes
Print Edition
PEOPLE can check the likelihood of developing diabetes in the next three years by using an app on their smartphone.
By inserting their basic health data and life habits, they can assess their risk. The application is based on data from a national survey covering 200,000 Chinese.
Developed by the Chinese Medical Doctor Association and Ruijin Hospital, the app was released yesterday to mark World Diabetes Day. An English version will be introduced soon.
An estimated 11.6 percent of Chinese citizens suffer from diabetes. Moreover, half of the adult population is in the stage of pre-diabetes — meaning that a quarter of them are likely to develop the condition within three years if not taking any steps to alleviate the problem.
“Diabetes is a disease closely related with lifestyle. A change in lifestyle and proper guidance from medical professionals can help many people to avoid the disease or put the disease under better control,” said Dr Ning Guang, vice president of Ruijin Hospital and the app’s developer.
“Simply by inserting a person’s age, gender, weight and height, habit of smoking and drinking and education background, the app can figure out the risk of diabetes.”
People at a high risk should take steps to reduce their chances of developing the condition, Ning added.
To promote education on diabetes and other metabolic diseases, China has started to set up metabolic management centers in domestic hospitals to allow patients to receive check-ups, diagnosis and education.
So far 34 hospitals have signed up for setting up the centers. By 2020, the nation will have over 1,000 such centers.
The first batch of patients at the center in Ruijin Hospital has seen highly promising results, as the percentage of patients meeting glucose standards has increased from 40 to 70 within a year.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
