Fitbit app now tracks your blood sugar levels
- Fitbit introduced blood sugar level tracking to its mobile app to help diabetics and others.
- You have to enter data manually – it’s not built into Fitbit’s wearables.
- EKG support for the sense has also been expanded to U.S. territories, Canada, and New Zealand.
If you’re a Fitbit owner with diabetes, you don’t need to turn to a third-party app to keep track of your condition. The new Google company Fitbit has introduced blood glucose monitoring in its mobile app, which you can use to treat diabetes or other health problems related to your glucose levels.
Unfortunately, the function is not available on Fitbit’s current wearables. You must either import the blood glucose data into the Fitbit app yourself or log it manually. In this case, however, you can set custom target ranges and review trends both over the day and over the long term. For example, you can see whether a change in diet is having an effect.
Standard blood glucose testing is free, although Fitbit Premium subscribers are given the “step-by-step” option to track values with correlations and trends over a period of 30 days. Members can also share their levels through health coaching and the wellness report.
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At the same time, Fitbit is expanding access to some of its hardware-based integrity functions. Sensory owners in U.S. territories (such as Guam and Puerto Rico), Canada and New Zealand can now use the EKG app to check for atrial fibrillation. In the meantime, all Charge 4 owners will receive an update with which they can check their blood oxygen (SpO2) on their wrist and in the app for free.
Charge 4, Inspire 2, and Versa 2 wearers can check their 7-day trends for free on the Phone app’s Health Metrics dashboard, Fitbit added. This was previously limited to the sense and verse 3.
Fitbit may not implement blood glucose monitoring in its wearables for a while. Companies like Quantum Operation claim to have glucose monitoring that does not require a blood draw, but the technology is still in its infancy. Even so, this additive could be helpful for diabetics who want a complete picture of their health.
