Design of a System using Mobile Application for the Control of Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

Abstract

The hectic lifestyle of the human nowadays, makes them prone to have an unbalanced diet, which consists of mostly processed foods, for example: snacks, soft drinks, fried foods, among others. In the following paper, the importance of controlling the type 1 diabetes that occurs mostly in infants and adolescents will be focus, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), less than 10% correspond to this type, which until this 21st century, there is no cure, but it is possible to have strict control so that these patients could have a better quality of life. It will focus on the control of a balanced diet and medications in which the patient is prescribed by their specialist doctor. This procedure will be done through the development of a mobile app, which is linked to a database in the hospital that the patient may be treating or doing its control, so the doctor can also have a better diagnosis and control if the patient is following with the requirements of its diet and doses of medications that doctor has been prescribing, all this data storage will be done through the mobile application developed on Android, where the patient will have a detailed schedule of their diet, glucose tests to be done and the prescription of the insulin dose