{"id":151775,"date":"2022-12-03T23:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T05:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-tattoo-like-sensor-measures-blood-glucose-levels-non-invasively"},"modified":"2022-12-03T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T05:25:25","slug":"this-tattoo-like-sensor-measures-blood-glucose-levels-non-invasively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-tattoo-like-sensor-measures-blood-glucose-levels-non-invasively","title":{"rendered":"This tattoo-like sensor measures blood glucose levels non-invasively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-tattoo-like-sensor-measures-blood-glucose-levels-non-invasively.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diabetes tracking can be a scary and tedious task, but University of California at San Diego researchers have developed a needless glucose monitor tattoo sensor that measures insulin levels through sweat on the skin.<\/p>\n<p>There are approximately 30.3 million people living with diabetes in the U.S., according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/diabetes-basics\/statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Diabetes Association<\/a>. Monitoring blood sugar levels is an important part of managing their condition. For people like Angela Valdez, that daily task is avoided because of the traditional pricking of the finger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t handle monitoring my diabetes as I should,\u201d said Valdez in a <a href=\"http:\/\/jacobsschool.ucsd.edu\/news\/news_releases\/release.sfe?id=2529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>. \u201cI have the diet down a lot better now and I take my medication as I should, but the finger pricking is a struggle for me. I only test if I feel bad. If I don\u2019t feel my blood sugar level is high, and I\u2019m taking the pill every day, I think I\u2019m alright. Which is really bad thinking, but the pin prick is terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes tracking can be a scary and tedious task, but University of California at San Diego researchers have developed a needless glucose monitor tattoo sensor that measures insulin levels through sweat on the skin. There are approximately 30.3 million people living with diabetes in the U.S., according to the American Diabetes Association. Monitoring blood sugar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}