London, Jul 27 (PTI) The emergence of Type 2 Diabetes could be more effectively monitored using our Google searches, helping public health officials to keep a track of the disease and halt its spread, scientists say. "Self-diagnosing behaviours online could be effectively leveraged for real-time health monitoring tools, with the biggest potential to be anticipated for chronic and non- communicable diseases," said Nataliya Tkachenko, who led the study. "Human online behaviours could help to bridge the gap between real-world human health landscape and synthetic, predominantly bio-centric monitoring tools," she said. Type 2 Diabetes requires many complex diagnostic medical tests to identify, including physical tests, urine samples, blood glucose tests, and insulin level blood tests. In 2015, 21.8 per cent of people in Britain chose to self-diagnose illnesses using the Internet, instead of consulting family or doctors?according to Google UK, they said.

Source: India Today July 27, 2017 06:33 UTC