世界上首款皮外檢測血糖水平的APP

The world's first health app could monitor people's glucose levels without breaking the skin - a development which has been described as the "holy grail" in diabetes care.

世界上首款皮外監測血糖水平的健康應用問世，這一進展被形容爲糖尿病護理中的“聖盃”。

The Epic app could also help people find out if they could develop diabetes and need to make lifestyle changes to avoid it becoming a reality.

“史詩”應用也可以幫助人們判斷自己是否可能患糖尿病，以及是否需要改變生活方式以預防糖尿病。

Users will only have to place one fingertip over the camera lens of their smartphone, the London-based firm has stated.

這家總部位於倫敦的公司聲稱，用戶只需將指尖放在其智能手機攝像頭前。

A series of close-up images are taken which accurately show information about the user's blood flow.

攝像頭會拍攝一系列特寫圖像，可精確反映用戶血流等信息。

These are then sent to the cloud for analysis and can provide feedback on all kinds of vital information - from heart rate to temperature to blood pressure. It can also tell people about their respiration and blood oxygen saturation.

然後這些圖像被送往雲端進行分析，併產生所有關鍵信息的反饋--心率、體溫、血壓等。這款應用還能讓用戶瞭解自己的呼吸和血氧飽和度。

Developers say the app will be available to download - free of charge - on Android and iOS at the end of this year.

開發者稱，這款應用將於今年年底登陸安卓和iOS平臺，並提供免費下載。

Almost all pre-existing glucose monitoring equipment is invasive - and many companies including Apple have talked of trying to develop a non-invasive method of testing.

幾乎所有目前的血糖檢測設備都是侵入式的，因此包括蘋果在內的許多公司都宣稱將嘗試開發一種無創檢測手段。