2024-02-08 08:01:44
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There are more than 2.5 million people with diabetes in Taiwan. Some people have blurred vision, vomiting or drowsiness due to high blood sugar. In fact, low blood sugar can cause heart palpitations, hand tremors or coma. Therefore, to stabilize blood sugar, diabetics must Constantly measuring blood sugar and then calculating and adjusting the insulin dose accordingly is a pain in the hearts of many patients. Now, a new digital medical innovation company has developed a long-acting insulin dose adjustment software app. Patients can administer insulin at home and get accurate information on the same day. Insulin should be administered in doses.
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Senior medical reporter Jiang Zhiwei: “Diabetes is a systemic metabolic disease that is closely related to the secretion of insulin in the body. If the body lacks insulin or has poor function, it cannot send glucose in the blood to the cells, which will cause the blood sugar concentration to rise. The most common They are type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes. Currently, more than 90% of Taiwanese diabetic patients have type 2 diabetes. As age increases, the function of the pancreas decreases, and the chance of developing the disease becomes higher. If high blood sugar is not treated aggressively, Treatment can easily lead to systemic complications.”
Ou Hongyi, Director/Professor of the Outpatient Department and Endocrinology and Metabolism Department of National Cheng Kung University Hospital: “Diabetes has a trend of gradually affecting younger people. 1% of Chinese people aged 20 to 40 have diabetes. This trend has also increased year by year in the past 10 years. We have also found that It is said that those who develop diabetes between the ages of 20 and 25 will live regarding five years shorter than Chinese people of the same age. Patients diagnosed with diabetes between the ages of 40 and 45 will live 2.7 years shorter than people of the same age. In other words, the younger the person with diabetes, the younger they will be. If it is not well controlled, you will be exposed to high blood sugar for more time throughout your life and your life span will be shortened.”
Don’t think that you won’t have the problem of abnormal blood sugar when you are young. Nowadays, there are many environmental factors that cause blood sugar to become high. Rejuvenation is a common phenomenon.
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Wang Zhiyuan, deputy director/professor of the Department of Internal Medicine at National Taiwan University Hospital: “Taiwan has found the main reason for the increase in diabetes among school children. In other words, from a single perspective, almost all diabetes has a phenomenon, and it may be indirectly related to weight, so obesity Among patients with diabetes, the incidence rate is actually high, so for patients, if they lose weight, some patients with diabetes can indeed reach diabetes, and they can return to the normal blood sugar range, so for this kind of young diabetes As long as the patient has a regular lifestyle and exercises, and he does regular blood sugar testing, even if his blood sugar is abnormal at first, he still has a good chance of controlling his blood sugar within the normal range.”
Research statistics have found that only regarding one-third of patients who inject basal insulin have blood sugar control, that is, their glycated hemoglobin reaches the target. Among the other two-thirds of patients who do not meet the target, even if they inject insulin, there are still nine out of ten patients. Fasting blood glucose in adult patients has not yet reached the target, mainly because the insulin dose has not been appropriately adjusted.
Ou Hongyi, Director/Professor of the Outpatient Department and Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of National Cheng Kung University Hospital: “Diabetes patients must first be willing to regularly test fasting blood sugar, then calculate the average value regularly, and finally calculate the dosage increase or decrease according to the range instructed by the doctor. In the past few years, In 2016, thanks to the long-term joint efforts of diabetes care colleagues and patients with diabetes, many patients with diabetes have now regularly tested their blood sugar on their own. However, when it comes to further need to calculate average values to calculate the dosage of insulin injection, this is what many people with diabetes need to do. My sugar lover’s heart aches.”
Senior medical reporter Jiang Zhiwei: “There are currently more than 2.5 million diabetic patients in Taiwan, and regarding 15% of them must self-administer insulin at home every day. The key lies in the patients. Some people have doubts regarding calculating the daily insulin dose. , therefore, now a new digital medical innovation has developed a long-acting insulin dose adjustment software app. Patients can administer insulin at home and accurately obtain the insulin dose that should be administered that day. “
Deng Juyi, co-founder and CEO of Digital Medical Innovation: “As Taiwan’s first second-class digital therapy medical material, the help of this medical material is that when the doctor prescribes insulin, he can also prescribe Yisu Pan. Patients use this software when they go home to calculate and directly interact with the patient and recommend adjustments to the patient’s long-acting insulin dose.”
Wang Zhiyuan, deputy director/professor of the Department of Internal Medicine at National Taiwan University Hospital: “At home, you can control the increase or decrease in your insulin dose by monitoring blood sugar in the target area according to the blood sugar you injected. This is the most important thing for us in Taiwan in the future to intelligently control blood sugar. So in the past, to control blood sugar, we relied on manual calculations. Now we don’t rely on manual work. We rely on semi-artificial intelligence. We calculate the amount of insulin we take and whether our blood sugar is within reach of the standard. This is done by software. Come and help us figure out whether we should increase or decrease the insulin dose.”
Ou Hongyi, Director/Professor of the Outpatient Department and Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of National Cheng Kung University Hospital: “We use digital software and tools to calculate and provide suggestions on our behalf. In our initial experience of using it, the response from both patients with diabetes and medical care has been quite good.”
If the intervention of smart technology can stabilize the blood sugar control of patients, it will benefit more diabetic patients.
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