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David L. Shenkenberg

Diabetes is a disease associated with high levels of the sugar glucose in the blood. It affects 24 million people in the US alone, and some 57 million more have prediabetes. The excess sugar hurts all the organs of the body and can even lead to death, but patients often do not know that they have the disease until complications become serious. An ophthalmic imaging system developed by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, could detect diabetes before symptoms otherwise become apparent, and even before detection by the standard procedure — the glucose tolerance test — is...Read full article

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    Published: September 2008
    BiophotonicsdiabetesNews & Featuresophthalmic imaging systemsugar glucose

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