A portable medical monitoring device

Abstract

Diabetes has become increasingly prevalent due to extremely busy lifestyles, family history of diabetes mellitus, and pregnancy in elder women, unhealthy eating habits. Diabetes accounted for the deaths of 2.9 million people in the 2010. The number of patients suffering from diabetes has grown from 9 percent in 2004, increased 11 percent last year, higher than the global average of 6 percent. Moreover, World Health Organization figures indicate that the incidence of diabetes in Singapore is set to go up from the current 11% of the population to 17% by 2030.