Buccal alterations in diabetes mellitus

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• who: Negrato et al. from the Mbi has shown in preliminary tests that diabetic patients present higher ketone levels in their breath than control individuals, even in normoglycemic statesThis could also be used to indirectly evaluate blood glucose levels, through the levels of ketone in the breath [67]. Plodinec and Wang at the University of Mississippi have developed a device that detects even low concentrations of ketonic bodies in the breath that closely mimics blood glucose concentrations, and could be used when the diagnosis of diabetes is suspected [67]. These new non invasive technologies that evaluate blood . . .
  

   

  

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