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> There's just not that much data on what the average healthy person's response to blood sugar is, especially when it's continuously monitored. Chicken and egg
by outworlder 2y ago
> There's just not that much data on what the average healthy person's response to blood sugar is, especially when it's continuously monitored.
Chicken and egg situation, no?
People are advised not to use those devices because there isn't much data about them for otherwise healthy people. But if they don't use those devices, there won't be much data.
- throwup238 2y agoThe data has to be collected under clinical conditions to control for confounding variables. People are notoriously bad at accurately recording their precise food intake which is probably the most important variable here. They need to do smaller controlled studies with provided diets. Large scale population studies with sensor data in the wild is going to be a trickier proposition that requires linking the sensors to the rest of the patients medical records which is a privacy mine field.