Clinical Effects of a Digital Health Intervention for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes in the United States: Retrospective Cohort Study
David Kerr, Nita Thingalaya, Praveen Potukuchi, Keni CS Lee, Edward Jonathan Han-Burgess, Darren Frey, Alison Edwards, Xinyan Yu, Laura Wilson, Felix Lee · 2026
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David Kerr and colleagues compare a digital diabetes platform with usual care in a 2026 retrospective study. The Dario platform logs blood glucose automatically and nudges behavior change. Users were matched against nonusers in United States health and lab datasets from 2017 to 2021. Matching produced 568 users and 1,699 nonusers with similar starting profiles. The main outcome was change in HbA1c, a blood sugar average.
HbA1c fell further in platform users, by an extra 0.23 percentage points on average. The advantage held at twelve months in sensitivity checks and appeared in every subgroup split by starting HbA1c level. At six months, forty-seven percent of users cut HbA1c by at least one full point. Only about thirty-seven percent of nonusers reached that mark. The authors read the results as real-world support for digital tools, while noting that motivated users may still differ from matched controls.
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| CREATOR | David Kerr, Nita Thingalaya, Praveen Potukuchi, Keni CS Lee, Edward Jonathan Han-Burgess, Darren Frey, Alison Edwards, Xinyan Yu, Laura Wilson, Felix Lee |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |