Diabetes Link: Platform for Self-Control and Monitoring People with Diabetes

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease characterized by an increase in blood glucose (sugar) above normal levels and it appears when human body is not able to produce enough insulin to cover the peripheral tissue demand. Nowadays, DM affects the 8.5% of the world’s population and, even though no cure for it has been found, an adequate monitoring and treatment allow patients to have an almost normal life. This paper introduces Diabetes Link, a comprehensive platform for control and monitoring people with DM. Diabetes Link allows recording various prameters relevant for the treatment and calculating different statistical charts using them. In addition, it allows connecting with other users (supervisors) so they can monitor the controls. Even more, the extensive comparative study carried out reflects that Diabetes Link presents distinctive and superior features against other proposals. We conclude that Diabetes Link represents a broad and accessible tool that can help make day-to-day control easier and optimize the efficacy in DM control and treatment.