Glucose Monitor

Xhale's research team has been striving to establish the reproducible correlation of glucose levels in the blood to glucose levels in the breath. If this correlation can be established, the team envisions a revolutionary blood glucose monitor that would allow diabetics to check their glucose levels via the breath rather than via a blood-stick test.The user would simply blow into the cell-phone sized monitor, and obtain a read-out of blood glucose level.

Such a device would still incorporate disposables similar to current monitors, but its advent would mean diabetics no longer have to endure the pain and inconvenience of lancing the skin to draw blood for testing, as all current consumer glucose tests require.

Diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability, with more than 135 million people afflicted worldwide, and projections that the number will rise to 300 million by the year 2025. One out of every three Americans born in 2000 will develop Type II diabetes during their lifetime, and the US Centers for Disease Control estimates that over 14 million Americans will have been diagnosed with diabetes by the end of 2005.

For all these people, self-monitoring of blood glucose is the only way in which they can calculate drug dosage (for example, insulin) and maintain safe glucose levels and reduce diabetes complications.

A Breath-Based Blood Glucose Monitor would be:

Non-Invasive & Pain-Free - breath-based testing means the end of finger pricks
Safe & Accurate - results that accurately correlate to blood glucose levels
Fast & Easy to Use - removes steps, time and confusion from the testing process

Xhale is committed to establishing if the blood-to-breath biology exists to allow it to bring this revolutionary product to market.