{"id":221265,"date":"2025-09-01T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/diagnosing-diabetes-may-soon-be-as-easy-as-breathing-into-a-bag"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:06:26","slug":"diagnosing-diabetes-may-soon-be-as-easy-as-breathing-into-a-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/diagnosing-diabetes-may-soon-be-as-easy-as-breathing-into-a-bag","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing diabetes may soon be as easy as breathing into a bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diagnosing-diabetes-may-soon-be-as-easy-as-breathing-into-a-bag.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., one in five of the 37 million adults who has diabetes doesn\u2019t know it. Current methods of diagnosing diabetes and prediabetes usually require a visit to a doctor\u2019s office or lab work, both of which can be expensive and time-consuming. Now, diagnosing diabetes and prediabetes may be as simple as breathing.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Huanyu \u201cLarry\u201d Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, has developed a sensor that can help diagnose diabetes and prediabetes on-site in a few minutes using just a breath sample. Their results are published in the Chemical Engineering Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Previous diagnostic methods often used glucose found in blood or sweat, but this sensor detects acetone levels in the breath. While everyone\u2019s breath contains acetone as a byproduct of burning fat, acetone levels above a threshold of about 1.8 parts per million indicate diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the U.S., one in five of the 37 million adults who has diabetes doesn\u2019t know it. Current methods of diagnosing diabetes and prediabetes usually require a visit to a doctor\u2019s office or lab work, both of which can be expensive and time-consuming. Now, diagnosing diabetes and prediabetes may be as simple as breathing. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221265","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}