Forbes October 14, 2025
Dr. Tal Patalon, MD, LLB, MBA

Despite the advancement of medicine, technological leaps and new drugs, astonishingly, diabetes remains largely underdiagnosed. Can a new wave of sensing technology change the paradigm?

In the past 30 years, the number of people living with diabetes has quadrupled; from 200 million to over 800 million in 2022. Even more astounding is that almost half of the world’s diabetics are undiagnosed. And all it takes is a simple blood test.

A new study analyzing 20 years of data across 200 countries reveals an unimaginable reality: 44% of people aged 15 and older who had diabetes were clinically undiagnosed. Young adults were least likely to be diagnosed in time; though this group is at high risk for complications with decades ahead...

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