Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease, increasing worldwide caused by absolute or relative deficiency of insulin. It results in an excessive amount of glucose in the blood associating with a range of severe complications including renal, cardiovascular diseases and blindness. If the diabetes is controlled properly, the severity of the disease is decreased. For this reason it requires correct educational awareness and routine health check. Doctors help in effective diagnosis and treatment of diabetes which associates high costs. Therefore, a diabetes management system with a friendly user-interface, such as a hand-held device is necessary. Among the hand-held mobile phone operating systems android is the most popular. This research presents the development of an android application for diagnosis and treatment of diabetes as well as diabetes along with hypertension.

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