Sweetch's AI-driven app claims to reduce risk of developing diabetes

While the world tries to decide whether artificial intelligence is here to help us or hurt us, AI is quietly infiltrating our daily lives -- from streaming recommendations to image recognition. And in health technology, AI is making a real difference to people across the world, saving lives in a multitude of ways. Today Sweetch -- a mobile health app that helps prevent diabetes and improve outcomes for people with diabetes by encouraging long-term behavioral change -- has revealed the outcomes of its clinical trial conducted at Johns Hopkins University. Directed by the university's division of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, the study shows that using Sweetch significantly lowered A1C levels -- a diabetes biomarker for blood sugar. The app has been shown to increase physical activity and reduced weight for patients with early stage diabetes.