The Role of Smartwatch Technology in the Provision of Care for Type 1 or 2 Diabetes Mellitus or Gestational Diabetes: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of smart technology in the management of all forms of diabetes mellitus has grown significantly in the past 10 years. Technologies such as the smartwatch have been proposed as a method of assisting in the monitoring of blood glucose levels as well as other alert prompts such as medication adherence and daily physical activity targets. These important outcomes reach across all forms of diabetes and have the potential to increase compliance of self-monitoring with the aim of improving long-term outcomes such as hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c).

Objective

This systematic review aims to explore the literature for evidence of smartwatch technology in type 1, 2, and gestational diabetes.

Methods

A systematic review was undertaken by searching Ovid MEDLINE and CINAH

SUBMITTER: Diez Alvarez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11629918 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature