The Deep View: AI for Good: Fighting diabetes before it starts. Quote: “1.3 billion people are projected to develop diabetes by 2050, with another 4 billion considered pre-diabetic”

AI for Good: Fighting diabetes before it starts
Source: Iman Al-dabbagh, Fortune
1.3 billion people are projected to develop diabetes by 2050, with another 4 billion considered pre-diabetic. AI is helping people with diabetes see how food affects their bodies, track risks in real time and act sooner on long-term health issues. Tools developed by companies like January AI are already making that possible. Best yet? No glucose monitor required.
What happened: At Fortune’s Most Powerful Women International conference in Riyadh, health leaders outlined how AI is shifting diabetes care toward prevention.
January AI uses food image recognition and predictive modeling to tell users how a specific meal will affect their blood sugar, based on individual genomic and lifestyle data. The company trained its engine on a dataset from over 1,000 participants to build real-time, personalized insights.
AI tools are also being applied to complications beyond diet. Olfat Berro, Middle East lead at Roche, highlighted how image analysis and genomics could help predict issues like diabetic vision loss. Leah Cotterill of Cigna noted that broader access to these tools across the Middle East could reduce the long-term strain on health systems.
Why it matters: Diabetes now affects millions worldwide and impacts everything from heart health to eyesight. Traditional care models react after symptoms emerge.
AI makes it possible to flag risk patterns early by analyzing how a person’s unique biology responds to diet and behavior.
That kind of foresight could delay—or even avoid—the worst complications for hundreds of millions.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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