Diabetes screening may be as simple as speaking into smartphone with new AI app, researchers say

Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel joins'Fox News Live' to discuss the growing popularity of a new class of weight loss drugs actually meant to treat diabetes and the potential side effects. Getting screened for type 2 diabetes could one day be as simple as speaking into your smartphone. Currently, gauging diabetes risk requires fasting, taking a blood test and waiting days for the results. In an effort to change that, researchers from Klick Applied Sciences in Toronto, Canada, have developed an artificial intelligence model that uses a 10-second voice recording to predict diabetes risk. The AI program was shown to predict the disease with 85% accuracy, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health last month.