Digital tools for diabetes don't pass muster: study


A new study finds that digital tools and apps to monitor diabetes fall short of helping to change people's behaviours.

The new study, published last week in the Cochrane Library, reveals that while consumers have a slew of apps and online resources to manage the disease, these kinds of tools bring little improvement to blood pressure, weight or other issues, and offer little help to change behaviours, researchers said.

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