- Some 1.3 billion people are predicted to have diabetes by the middle of the century. That number hits 5 billion when pre-diabetic people are included. Artificial intelligence now lets people with diabetes know the composition of their food—and their likely blood sugar response to it. Soon, it will allow them to predict which diseases they will face in the future, and take early actions to avoid them.
Artificial intelligence will play an increasingly important role in preventing and treating diseases related to diabetes—especially in regions with large lifestyle-related diabetic populations such as the Middle East—a panel of health industry leaders told Fortune’s Most Powerful Women International conference in Riyadh.
