Author(s): Chhavi Mehra*, Annie Mattilda Raymond and Sunil L
Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is not only one of the leading causes of mortality, but its impact on healthcare costs and burden is
becoming unsustainable each year. The quality of life and life expectancy are both significantly impacted by this chronic metabolic condition. To help control their blood glucose levels, patients with T2DM adhere to a self-management regimen as instructed by a professional. Various technological options are available now to help self-management.
Methods: Here, we present a case of a 64-year-old female with insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus, multiple co-morbidities, depression, confined to her room, and inability to walk for about a year. After six months of the Sugar fit approach with daily-personalized life coaching, expert medical advice, tech-enabled, AI-driven model, she showed tremendous improvement in every parameter.
Results: Before joining sugar fit, the patient was on 44 units of rapid insulin and 18 units of long-acting and oral anti-diabetic medications. The patient’s Hba1c at baseline was 8%; six months later, it is 6.8% with all rapid and long insulin stopped and oral meds essentially the same as before. She has reduced creatinine from 1.88 to 1.37 and triglycerides from 1015 to 448, respectively. Her BP medications have been reduced to 50%. She walks for 2 km every day and is socially active with resolved depression. She has lost 3 kgs of weight and 3 inches of waist circumference.
Conclusions: The findings indicate that a tech-enabled, AI-driven model with intensive, personalized coaching, lifestyle modification, and expert
physician guidance has shown remarkable results even in this particularly complicated case.The findings indicate that the personalized and individualized frequent lifestyle coaching and expert physician opinion enabled by superior technology and AI-driven Insights resulted in marked improvement of all parameters and significant medication reductions even in Diabetes of long duration
with comorbidities.
