With AI, Your Apple Watch Could Flag Signs of Diabetes

Before modern chemistry brought doctors blood and urine tests for diagnosing diabetes, they had to rely on their taste buds. Sweet-tasting pee has long been the disease's telltale biomarker; mellitus literally means honey. Too much sugar in your bodily fluids means your metabolism has gone haywire--either your cells aren't making insulin or they're not responding to it. But a little over a decade ago, a group of researchers discovered a less obvious link. One of the complications of diabetes is nerve damage, and in the cardiovascular system that damage can cause irregular heart rates.