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IIT start-up creates digital twin to monitor health; study shows success in controlling blood sugar levels

Twin Health, a startup in IIT Madras’ research park, has developed a method to monitor an individual’s health parameters by creating a digital twin.  

The digital twin, created using 174 health markers and over 3,000 data points collected every day from the individual using sensors, helps the individual to monitor what they eat and how they live, thereby “reversing type 2 diabetes”, according to the claim of the architects of the study.  

On Wednesday, at the IITMRP, the evaluation report of the experiment that included 206 prime patients and 82 persons in the controlled group, was tabled.  

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