Type 2 diabetes
One condition, every record we hold on it: what the evidence supports, what people living with it actually ask, what the news follows, what is being patented, what companies are building, what those businesses earn, and what people install on their phones.
Trace type 2 diabetes across Prism's evidence, research, news, patent, community, company and filing records — the graph behind its causes and treatments, what patients ask and pay, what startups are building, and what those businesses actually earn.
Related records across every corpus we hold, not a severity score.
Built 2026-09-18 · Measurement windows and limitations
The evidence graph
182,350 extracted claims link type 2 diabetes to 85,361 distinct factors. The graph below ranks them by evidence strength rather than by how often each is written about — for this subject, and for most, those are different answers.
Sized by claims at high or very high evidence strength. A dashed ring marks a link whose claims since 2023 outnumber 2019–2022 by more than two to one.
- obesity146 strong / 3,971
- overweight55 strong / 1,160
- age32 strong / 301
- smoking31 strong / 252
- insulin resistance24 strong / 768
- physical inactivity23 strong / 203
- obese18 strong / 295
- body mass index17 strong / 57
- family history16 strong / 195
- gestational diabetes15 strong / 265
- metformin334 strong / 1,642
- liraglutide165 strong / 402
- semaglutide ↑163 strong / 695
- tirzepatide ↑162 strong / 487
- dapagliflozin117 strong / 250
- sitagliptin106 strong / 236
- insulin glargine90 strong / 134
- sglt2 inhibitors80 strong / 303
- basal insulin72 strong / 167
- exercise68 strong / 521
- mediterranean diet ↑29 strong / 201
- coffee28 strong / 200
- weight loss20 strong / 166
- physical activity19 strong / 250
- whole grains17 strong / 149
- exercise11 strong / 274
- healthy diet10 strong / 244
- diet9 strong / 190
- healthy lifestyle8 strong / 129
- drinking coffee8 strong / 87
- insulin resistance10 strong / 187
- inflammation7 strong / 64
- insulin5 strong / 99
- gut microbiota4 strong / 20
- sglt2i4 strong / 7
- elevated blood sugar levels3 strong / 4
- sitagliptin3 strong / 3
- metformin2 strong / 17
Written about most, supported least
Links with the widest gap between how often they are claimed and how often a strong study carries the claim.
| Linked term | Claims | High-strength | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| lack of exercise | 160 | 0 | none |
| intermittent fasting | 86 | 0 | none |
| ozempic | 1,249 | 14 | 1.1% |
| sedentary lifestyle | 207 | 3 | 1.4% |
| poor diet | 219 | 4 | 1.8% |
| high blood pressure | 149 | 3 | 2.0% |
What kind of study the claims come from
Every source document classified by design.
Every node here is a live subject in the disease evidence explorer: selecting one opens it as the centre of its own graph, with every other condition it touches.
Research landscape
128,367 research records carry this condition as an indexed subject heading between 2012 and 2025 — 10,214 of them randomised trials and 5,032 meta-analyses. The mix matters more than the total: it is what the evidence strengths in the graph above are built from.
Research records per year
Indexed research records, 2012–2025.
Trials and syntheses per year
Drawn on their own scale; they are a small share of the total.
- Hypoglycemic Agents25,355 · steady
- Blood Glucose24,948 · steady
- Glycated Hemoglobin16,586 · steady
- Insulin13,483 · steady
- Biomarkers10,029 · steady
- Glucose6,616 · rising
- Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors6,101 · rising
- hemoglobin A1c protein, human5,985 · falling
- Metformin5,949 · steady
- Dipeptidyl-Peptidase IV Inhibitors3,415 · steady
- Glucagon-Like Peptide 13,100 · rising
- Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists2,818 · rising
- Triglycerides2,752 · steady
- Glucosides2,617 · rising
- Hypoglycemic Agents25,384
- Blood Glucose24,965
- Risk Factors22,103
- Glycated Hemoglobin16,599
- Obesity13,679
- Insulin13,494
- Insulin Resistance10,755
- Cardiovascular Diseases10,644
- Biomarkers10,037
- Body Mass Index7,156
- Glucose6,621
- Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors6,112
- Metformin5,958
- Diabetic Nephropathies5,316
- Diabetes care3,025
- Diabetes, obesity & metabolism3,025
- PloS one2,683
- Diabetes research and clinical practice2,486
- Frontiers in endocrinology2,112
- Scientific reports1,921
- Diabetologia1,720
- Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association1,657
- Cardiovascular diabetology1,509
- Nutrients1,450
Counts are research records carrying the subject heading, not a measure of research quality or spend. Randomised trials and meta-analyses are recorded study designs. Rising and falling compare records per year in 2012–2021 against 2022–2025, because the two windows are different lengths.
News attention
87,528 articles across five years matched this subject. News volume measures attention, not incidence or severity — it is included here because the gap between what is covered and what is supported is one of the things this report is for.
Matched coverage per month
87,528 articles, 2021-05 to 2026-05. The final month is drawn dashed: the most recent weeks are still being ingested and always read low.
What changed between the last two years
Themes by share of coverage
Gaining share of coverage
Losing share
Change in each theme's share of matched coverage between 2024-05–2025-05 (19,584 articles) and 2025-05–2026-05 (21,883 articles). A share change is not a percentage-point change, and a theme can gain share while its raw count falls.
How the coverage reads
Sentiment of every matched article
- diabetes medication management37,756
- chronic disease research (e.g., cancer, diabetes)19,554
- diabetes & heart disease interplay11,595
- glycemic index and diabetes nutrition2,933
- type 1 diabetes management2,714
- diabetes-friendly meal plans2,137
- exercise and physical activity for diabetics1,894
- pediatric diabetes care and monitoring1,873
- diabetes and obesity management1,858
- prediabetes intervention strategies1,763
- oral hypoglycemic agents for diabetes1,590
- diabetes epidemiology and population health1,506
- novo nordisk1,011
- lilly539
- medtronic366
- tandem diabetes care235
- mayo clinic140
- american diabetes association140
- american heart association118
- sanofi113
- eli lilly and company94
- abbott93
- insulet87
- national institutes of health86
What people actually deal with
572,618 typed signals from 572,607 public conversations, covering 32,024 distinct treatments, devices and symptoms. The research record says what works; this says what living with it is like — what people ask, what they can afford, and what they stop taking.
Signals per year and what they were doing
Every typed signal, and the kind of message it came from
What the conversation is about
Share of signals by aspect
What people ask most
Recurring questions and requests for help, de-duplicated. Wording is as written, lightly tidied.
- Availability discussion for zepbound prescriptions170 times
- How much are you paying for ozempic?32 times
- Off-label weight loss not diabetes20 times
- How do you afford zepbound?19 times
- How are y'all getting and affording ozempic?19 times
- Insurance will deny it because not diabetic19 times
- Unable to get ozempic because of type 1 diabetes18 times
- Pharmacy filling prescription within business days due to limited refrigeration space18 times
- Insurance coverage for zepbound17 times
- CVS told me to give up on zepbound, that it's not being made right now16 times
- Insurance coverage for ozempic in canada for non diabetic15 times
- Post flair selection for zepbound prescription filling14 times
Treatments as people describe them
Positive share counts only signals the model judged either way; neutral mentions are excluded from it.
| Treatment | Mentions | Of those judged | Side-effect reports | Cost & access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ozempic | 74,876 | 66% positive | 2,669 | 3,087 |
| metformin | 55,295 | 58% positive | 3,894 | 140 |
| insulin | 43,333 | 45% positive | 427 | 1,312 |
| zepbound | 31,601 | 69% positive | 1,160 | 2,195 |
| lantus | 10,936 | 54% positive | 272 | 268 |
| humalog | 6,837 | 58% positive | 38 | 253 |
| mounjaro | 6,656 | 85% positive | 114 | 137 |
| zep | 4,736 | 79% positive | 55 | 373 |
| novolog | 3,303 | 59% positive | 30 | 139 |
| wegovy | 3,035 | 70% positive | 39 | 119 |
Devices as people describe them
Same measure, monitoring and delivery hardware
| Device | Mentions | Of those judged | Side-effect reports | Cost & access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dexcom | 28,422 | 68% positive | 8 | 937 |
| cgm | 8,874 | 91% positive | 0 | 235 |
| dexcom g6 | 8,020 | 72% positive | 3 | 168 |
| omnipod | 7,606 | 78% positive | 4 | 73 |
| libre | 5,078 | 71% positive | 0 | 156 |
| insulin pump | 4,601 | 77% positive | 0 | 96 |
| pump | 4,381 | 83% positive | 0 | 39 |
| freestyle libre | 4,066 | 81% positive | 1 | 114 |
| dexcom g7 | 3,640 | 49% positive | 2 | 77 |
| medtronic | 2,872 | 49% positive | 0 | 119 |
These are lived-experience signals, not clinical evidence and not a representative survey: the people who post are not a sample of everyone with the condition, and a treatment discussed more is usually a treatment prescribed more. Read them next to the evidence graph, not instead of it.
Where it is written about
Three different geographies of the same subject: where the news reports it, which regions carry that coverage, and where the companies working on it are based. None of them measures where the disease actually is.
Where the news is written
87,528 matched articles · 59 countries with coverage
States and regions
Matched articles by reported region
| State or region | Country | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| California | United States | 1,126 |
| New York | United States | 854 |
| Texas | United States | 568 |
| Massachusetts | United States | 456 |
| England | China | 438 |
| Florida | United States | 436 |
| Oklahoma | United States | 362 |
| Maharashtra | India | 345 |
| Illinois | United States | 330 |
| Pennsylvania | United States | 308 |
| Viken | Norway | 288 |
| Arizona | United States | 274 |
| Delhi | India | 257 |
| New Jersey | United States | 245 |
| Washington | United States | 209 |
| Indiana | United States | 190 |
| Maryland | United States | 185 |
| North Carolina | United States | 183 |
| Ohio | India | 181 |
| Michigan | United States | 177 |
Where the companies are
One point per recorded headquarters
1,230 of 1,260 companies record a headquarters location.
City tags in the news corpus mix cities with states and acronyms, so this chapter uses country and state tags only. A country's article count reflects reported location and how much news that country produces; the relative-attention view divides that out.
What is being patented
49,718 patent publications between 2010 and 2024 name this subject in their title. Patents show where money expects a return, which is a different signal from either the research record or the news.
Patent publications per year
49,718 publications on the strict match, 2010–2024.
Which ideas are growing inside the filing record
Title-term matches. Change compares filings per year, because the two windows are six years and five.
| Theme in the filing title | 2014–19 | 2020–24 | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| machine learning | 6 | 78 | 15.6× |
| biosensor | 9 | 25 | 3.3× |
| wound | 150 | 404 | 3.2× |
| insulin delivery | 191 | 400 | 2.5× |
| gene therapy | 29 | 57 | 2.4× |
| artificial pancreas | 38 | 73 | 2.3× |
| closed loop | 13 | 24 | 2.2× |
| glucagon-like peptide | 207 | 333 | 1.9× |
| retinopathy | 296 | 472 | 1.9× |
| stem cell | 168 | 236 | 1.7× |
| neuropathy | 193 | 262 | 1.6× |
| continuous glucose | 40 | 54 | 1.6× |
- A61K — Medicinal preparations26,866
- A61P — Therapeutic activity of compounds24,874
- C07K — Peptides7,227
- C07D — Heterocyclic compounds4,917
- A23L — Foods and non-alcoholic beverages4,216
- A23V — Food composition indexing4,140
- G01N — Investigating materials by analysis3,944
- G16H — Healthcare informatics3,006
- C12N — Micro-organisms, enzymes, genetic engineering2,907
- A61B — Diagnosis and surgery2,833
- NOVO NORDISK AS937
- KVASENKOV OLEG IVANOVICH748
- SANOFI AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND644
- MERCK SHARP & DOHME612
- BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INT597
- LILLY CO ELI558
- HOFFMANN LA ROCHE550
- HANMI PHARM IND CO LTD398
- SANOFI SA338
- PFIZER254
- ZEALAND PHARMA AS228
- JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA NV218
- United States9,458
- South Korea2,963
- Germany1,963
- China1,555
- Russia1,286
- Denmark1,180
- Japan1,117
- France1,045
- Switzerland1,028
- United Kingdom646
Publication lags filing by roughly eighteen months, so the last years of this window are structurally incomplete and a fall at the right-hand edge is not a fall in activity. Assignee is whoever the filing names, which includes prolific individual inventors alongside companies.
What the companies are building
The 1,260 companies in this field are not building one thing. Grouping them by what they say they do separates the monitoring hardware from the drugs, the software from the surgery — and shows which approaches are the newer arrivals.
- Intarcia$2,109MProvider of osmotic pump for subcutaneous drug delivery
- Kailera$1,000MDeveloper of therapies for treating obesity and related conditions
- Kriya Therapeutics$938MDeveloper of therapeutic solutions for the treatment of diabetes
- Dexcom$1,964MProvider of a wearable device for glucose monitoring
- Tandem Diabetes$508MDeveloper of devices for continuous glucose monitoring and manual insulin delivery
- Intuity Medical$309MAll-in-one blood glucose monitoring system
- Know Labs$63MDeveloper of non-invasive technology for identifying and measuring molecules
- Indigo$55MNeedle free glucose monitoring technology
- RSP Systems$35MProvider of a non-invasive blood glucose monitoring device
- Laxmi Therapeutic Devices$24MDevelper of a wearable diagnostic device for continuous glucose monitoring
- Bluedrop Medical$19MDeveloper of diagnostic technology for diabetes -related complications
- Mellitus$18MIn vitro diagnostic test for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
- Podimetrics$103MProvider of diabetic foot ulcer monitoring device for patients and doctors
- Trice Medical$94MMinimally invasive solutions for orthopedic and podiatric procedures, improving patient outcomes
- Reapplix$52MDeveloper of patch system for wound healing
- Dexcom$1,964MProvider of a wearable device for glucose monitoring
- CeQur$392MDeveloper of wearable insulin delivery patch
- Insulet$381MManufacturer of wearable, tubeless insulin delivery systems for diabetes management
- Tandem Diabetes$508MDeveloper of devices for continuous glucose monitoring and manual insulin delivery
- CeQur$392MDeveloper of wearable insulin delivery patch
- Insulet$381MManufacturer of wearable, tubeless insulin delivery systems for diabetes management
- Caladrius Biosciences$128MDeveloper of cell therapy based drugs for coronary microvascular dysfunction, diabetes, cancer a
- Regenxbio$127MDeveloper of AAV Gene Therapy for rare genetic diseases
- Elevian$61MDeveloper of regenerative therapies for treating age-related diseases
- Kannact$14MHuman-driven digital health company providing personalized support for chronic condition managem
- MedicSen$6MMobile app to manage diabetes
- HELLO INSIDE$2MProvider of continuous glucose monitoring sensors and related mobile application
Which approaches are newer, and where the money moved
Cohort compares a theme's share of companies founded from 2017 against the field as a whole. Funding compares dollars per year in 2021–2026 against 2015–2020.
| Theme | Companies | Founded ≤2016 | Founded ≥2017 | Cohort | Funding per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI & analytics | 15 | 3 | 11 | newer | 2.3× |
| Wearables | 64 | 32 | 26 | newer | 0.3× |
| Digital care & coaching | 23 | 12 | 9 | typical | 1.1× |
| Nutrition & lifestyle | 14 | 7 | 5 | typical | 2.9× |
| Drugs & therapeutics | 264 | 137 | 95 | typical | 1.2× |
| Cell & gene therapy | 34 | 16 | 10 | typical | 0.4× |
| Foot & wound care | 86 | 44 | 27 | typical | 0.6× |
| Continuous glucose monitoring | 252 | 135 | 77 | typical | 0.1× |
| Non-invasive measurement | 100 | 59 | 32 | typical | 0.8× |
| Eye screening | 22 | 12 | 6 | typical | 3.8× |
| Insulin delivery | 54 | 30 | 13 | older | 0.4× |
| Kidney & organ complications | 7 | 5 | 2 | older | 0.5× |
| Diagnostics & testing | 98 | 56 | 20 | older | 1.3× |
Themes are read from each company's own description of itself, over the 1,199 of 1,260 companies that carry one. A company can sit in more than one theme, so the counts do not sum to the total. Funding counts rounds that state an amount.
Companies & capital
1,260 companies are classified to this field, 417 of them with a funding round on record. This is the commercial edge of the same subject the research and patent chapters describe.
Companies founded per year
By recorded founding year. Recent years are incomplete: a company enters the record once it is covered, not when it is formed.
Disclosed funding per year
Rounds that state an amount
Best-funded companies in this field
Ranked by disclosed equity across 1,755 rounds.
| Company | HQ | Founded | Rounds | Disclosed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IntarciaProvider of osmotic pump for subcutaneous drug delivery | Boston, United States | 1995 | 22 | $2,109M |
| DexcomProvider of a wearable device for glucose monitoring | San Diego, United States | 1999 | 8 | $1,964M |
| KaileraDeveloper of therapies for treating obesity and related conditions | Waltham, United States | 2024 | 2 | $1,000M |
| Kriya TherapeuticsDeveloper of therapeutic solutions for the treatment of diabetes | Redwood City, United States | 2012 | 5 | $938M |
| Sana BiotechnologyDeveloper of engineered cell therapies for treating various human diseases | Seattle, United States | 2018 | 1 | $821M |
| LivongoProvider of smart devices for diabetes management for patients and doctors | San Francisco, United States | 2014 | 8 | $720M |
| Tandem DiabetesDeveloper of devices for continuous glucose monitoring and manual insulin delivery | San Diego, United States | 2008 | 6 | $508M |
| OnduoDiabetes monitoring and management systems | Newton, United States | 2016 | 1 | $500M |
| CeQurDeveloper of wearable insulin delivery patch | Horw, Switzerland | 2008 | 5 | $392M |
| CarmotDeveloper of disease-modifying therapies to treat metabolic diseases | Berkeley, United States | 2008 | 16 | $391M |
| InsuletManufacturer of wearable, tubeless insulin delivery systems for diabetes management | Boston, United States | 2000 | 8 | $381M |
| Lexicon PharmaceuticalsDeveloper of small molecule drugs for diffrent health diseases | The Woodlands, United States | 1995 | 11 | $381M |
| Apollo TherapeuticsDeveloper of therapeutic programs based on biological and medical research | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2020 | 2 | $372M |
| ValeritasDeveloper of wearable insulin patch pumps for insulin delivery through the skin | Bridgewater, United States | 2003 | 6 | $357M |
| Beta BionicsInnovating diabetes management with automated bionic pancreas technology | Boston, United States | 2015 | 10 | $351M |
- Grant (prize money)400
- Seed317
- Post IPO290
- Series A284
- Series B162
- Series C88
- Conventional Debt81
- Series D39
- PE19
- Unattributed17
- Unfunded325
- Deadpooled295
- Funding Raised119
- Acquired88
- Seed88
- Public75
- Series A69
- Not recorded64
- Private41
- Series B40
- Medical Devices628
- Diabetes Devices608
- Chronic Disease Management473
- Glucose Monitoring Devices447
- At Home Diagnostics440
- Life Sciences - US429
- Non Invasive Diabetes Monitoring332
- IoT in Healthcare325
- Biopharmaceuticals302
- Diabetes Drugs299
- Enterprise Tech - US286
- Non-Invasive Health Monitoring Devices275
The record carries an amount for only some rounds, so the disclosed total is a floor, not a market size. Companies are included by their recorded sector classification, which is coarser than the condition itself.
What the businesses actually earn
Funding is what a company raised; this is what it earned. 22 companies in this field file annual accounts in India, giving real multi-year revenue, profit and margin — including the loss-making years.
Indian operations: filed accounts
22 legal entities with at least two filed years, from 50 companies in this field based in India. 7 were profitable in their latest filed year; 9 grew revenue across the period. Figures in rupee crore, as filed.
| Company | Revenue trend | Latest revenue | Net margin | Revenue CAGR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| India Medtronic Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹2,638.9 cr | +5.2% | +22.9% | |
| Haiden Technology Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹66.3 cr | +2.5% | +11.3% | |
| Levim Lifetech Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹30.6 cr | +0.8% | — | |
| Kriya Medical Technologies Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹20.7 cr | -88.3% | +18.9% | |
| Biosense Technologies Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹16.6 cr | +1.2% | -36.1% | |
| Elicad Pharmaceuticals Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹9.7 cr | +4.8% | — | |
| Sekkei Bio Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹7.2 cr | -27.3% | — | |
| Diabetik Foot Care India Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹6.5 cr | +3.4% | +24.3% | |
| Biogenomics Limited5 filed years · FY2019–FY2023 | ₹5.1 cr | -602.5% | -24.1% | |
| Ayati Devices Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹4.0 cr | +8.6% | +347.2% | |
| Yostra Labs Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹2.6 cr | -22.1% | +48.1% | |
| Genesis Medical Systems Private Limited5 filed years · FY2021–FY2025 | ₹1.4 cr | -0.3% | +41.7% |
The same view, United States
Held back on this page. The coverage below is real and the companies are named; the figures open in Radar.
| Company | Revenue | Margin | Headcount | On file |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMedNorthridge, United States · listed | •••• | ••• | •••• | — |
| DexcomSan Diego, United States · listed | •••• | ••• | •••• | ✓ |
| FiaspPlainsboro, United States | •••• | ••• | •••• | — |
| InsuletBoston, United States · listed | •••• | ••• | •••• | ✓ |
| Capillary BiomedicalIrvine, United States | •••• | ••• | •••• | — |
| Tandem DiabetesSan Diego, United States · listed | •••• | ••• | •••• | ✓ |
| EmbectaParsippany, United States · listed | •••• | ••• | •••• | ✓ |
| Medtronic DiabetesNorthridge, United States | •••• | ••• | •••• | — |
| VivaChekWilmington, United States | •••• | ••• | •••• | ✓ |
| AnimasUnited States | •••• | ••• | •••• | — |
| DisetronicIndianapolis, United States | •••• | ••• | •••• | — |
| RegenxbioRockville, United States · listed | •••• | ••• | •••• | ✓ |
Indian figures are statutory company accounts as filed, keyed to the registered legal entity rather than to a brand name — one brand can file under several entities, and a subsidiary of a foreign parent files here like any other domestic company. Net margin is profit after tax over revenue from operations. Loss-making years are shown as filed, not hidden.
What people install
759 apps name this subject in their title, with 149 million installs between them. It is the cheapest thing anyone builds around a health subject, and the quality spread shows it.
Apps released per year
By recorded release date
How they are rated
158 of 759 carry a rating
Most installed
Apps with more than 400 ratings, so a single review cannot place one here
| App | Installs | Rating | Ratings | Category | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Sugar - Diabetes AppQR Code Scanner. | 22,229,313 | 4.5 | 50,595 | Health & Fitness | 2022 |
| Blood Sugar & Diabetes TrackerPidomTech | 19,376,828 | 3.6 | 12,452 | Health & Fitness | 2025 |
| Dr. Blood Pressure: DiabetesHealthy Care Technology AI Lab | 7,785,318 | 3.9 | 8,510 | Medical | 2022 |
| Blood pressure - Blood Sugarhighsecure | 7,145,579 | 3.9 | 15,334 | Health & Fitness | 2024 |
| mySugr - Diabetes Tracker LogmySugr GmbH | 6,571,173 | 4.5 | 136,314 | Medical | 2013 |
| Blood Sugar Diary for DiabetesCards | 6,430,983 | 4.4 | 23,652 | Medical | 2020 |
| Diabetes – Blood SugarBlood Sugar app | 5,269,119 | 4.1 | 63,386 | Food & Drink | 2018 |
| BeatO: Diabetes Care AppBeatO | 2,579,196 | 4.3 | 45,316 | Health & Fitness | 2015 |
| Blood Sugar&Pressure: iCardioCodeJoy | 2,484,942 | 4.3 | 6,934 | Health & Fitness | 2025 |
| Blood Sugar & Pressure TrackerHangzhou Suoyi Network Technology Co., Ltd. | 2,407,502 | 4.4 | 16,431 | Health & Fitness | 2024 |
| Health2Sync - Diabetes TrackerH2 Inc. | 2,240,335 | 4.4 | 20,246 | Medical | 2014 |
| Blood Sugar Tracker - DiabetesLeap Fitness Group | 1,810,292 | 4.5 | 12,790 | Health & Fitness | 2021 |
| Blood Sugar Care AppNova Xponential Power | 1,475,538 | 3.3 | 664 | Health & Fitness | 2026 |
| Blood Sugar Care & BP MonitorWeather 365 Days | 1,237,824 | 4.3 | 9,531 | Health & Fitness | 2024 |
- Health & Fitness352 · 106M installs
- Medical212 · 34M installs
- Food & Drink43 · 6M installs
- Personalization40 · 0M installs
- Education32 · 0M installs
- Tools30 · 2M installs
- Lifestyle19 · 0M installs
- Shopping7 · 0M installs
A marketplace listing is not a medical device and an install is not a user. Most of these apps are trackers rather than regulated products, and only 158 of 759 carry enough ratings to mean anything — the long tail is near-identical clones of the same tracker.
Full records
The complete tables behind the chapters above, including the rows that did not fit a ranking.
News coverage by country59 countries
| Country | Articles | Share | Relative attention | Companies | Research |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States of America | 10,660 | 12.18% | 0.46× | 506 | 43,778 |
| India | 2,474 | 2.83% | 0.43× | 50 | — |
| United Kingdom | 1,701 | 1.94% | 0.61× | 83 | 35,507 |
| China | 578 | 0.66% | 0.54× | 65 | 1,790 |
| Australia | 509 | 0.58% | 0.50× | 17 | 1,793 |
| Canada | 439 | 0.50% | 0.47× | 46 | 1,392 |
| Germany | 312 | 0.36% | 0.64× | 37 | 6,999 |
| Spain | 222 | 0.25% | 0.45× | 9 | 1,114 |
| Sweden | 189 | 0.22% | below threshold | 16 | — |
| France | 189 | 0.22% | below threshold | 28 | 1,770 |
| Denmark | 171 | 0.19% | below threshold | 15 | — |
| Norway | 170 | 0.19% | below threshold | 8 | — |
| Japan | 163 | 0.19% | below threshold | 9 | 2,724 |
| Brazil | 140 | 0.16% | below threshold | — | — |
| New Zealand | 140 | 0.16% | below threshold | — | — |
| Singapore | 126 | 0.14% | below threshold | 9 | — |
| Italy | 126 | 0.14% | below threshold | 12 | 1,142 |
| Switzerland | 123 | 0.14% | below threshold | 25 | 8,911 |
| Nigeria | 105 | 0.12% | below threshold | — | — |
| South Korea | 105 | 0.12% | below threshold | 41 | — |
| Ireland | 85 | 0.10% | below threshold | — | 3,630 |
| Belgium | 82 | 0.09% | below threshold | — | — |
| Austria | 81 | 0.09% | below threshold | 7 | — |
| United Arab Emirates | 75 | 0.09% | below threshold | — | 1,345 |
| Turkey | 57 | 0.07% | below threshold | 8 | — |
| Ghana | 55 | 0.06% | below threshold | — | — |
| Philippines | 54 | 0.06% | below threshold | 12 | — |
| Taiwan | 50 | 0.06% | below threshold | 19 | — |
| Mexico | 50 | 0.06% | below threshold | — | — |
| Israel | 48 | 0.06% | below threshold | 48 | — |
| South Africa | 47 | 0.05% | below threshold | — | — |
| Indonesia | 41 | 0.05% | below threshold | — | — |
| Colombia | 39 | 0.04% | below threshold | — | — |
| Finland | 37 | 0.04% | below threshold | — | — |
| Iran | 34 | 0.04% | below threshold | — | — |
| Malaysia | 33 | 0.04% | below threshold | — | — |
| Kenya | 31 | 0.03% | below threshold | — | — |
| Egypt | 29 | 0.03% | below threshold | — | — |
| Pakistan | 29 | 0.03% | below threshold | — | — |
| Saudi Arabia | 29 | 0.03% | below threshold | — | — |
| Portugal | 27 | 0.03% | below threshold | — | — |
| Thailand | 24 | 0.03% | below threshold | — | — |
| Netherlands | 20 | 0.02% | below threshold | 19 | 6,827 |
| Poland | 20 | 0.02% | below threshold | 7 | — |
| Ukraine | 19 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Panama | 19 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Sri Lanka | 18 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Greece | 17 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Iceland | 17 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Bangladesh | 16 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Republic of the Congo | 15 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Oman | 14 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Jersey | 14 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Hungary | 14 | 0.02% | below threshold | — | — |
| Russia | 13 | 0.01% | below threshold | — | — |
| Jamaica | 13 | 0.01% | below threshold | — | — |
| Turkmenistan | 13 | 0.01% | below threshold | — | — |
| Cameroon | 12 | 0.01% | below threshold | — | — |
| Chile | 11 | 0.01% | below threshold | — | — |
News subcategories in full36 labels
| Subcategory | Articles | Prior year | Recent year |
|---|---|---|---|
| diabetes medication management | 37,756 | 8,473 | 9,181 |
| chronic disease research (e.g., cancer, diabetes) | 19,554 | 4,278 | 4,963 |
| diabetes & heart disease interplay | 11,595 | 2,385 | 2,650 |
| glycemic index and diabetes nutrition | 2,933 | 636 | 747 |
| type 1 diabetes management | 2,714 | 767 | 703 |
| diabetes-friendly meal plans | 2,137 | 445 | 580 |
| exercise and physical activity for diabetics | 1,894 | 381 | 525 |
| pediatric diabetes care and monitoring | 1,873 | 370 | 543 |
| diabetes and obesity management | 1,858 | 443 | 648 |
| prediabetes intervention strategies | 1,763 | 321 | 510 |
| oral hypoglycemic agents for diabetes | 1,590 | 346 | 553 |
| diabetes epidemiology and population health | 1,506 | 308 | 408 |
| artificial pancreas systems and advanced diabetes technology | 1,354 | 359 | 294 |
| diabetes risk factor assessment tools | 1,264 | 247 | 386 |
| diabetic neuropathy prevention and care | 1,239 | 273 | 236 |
| neurological complications of diabetes | 1,211 | 309 | 290 |
| type 2 diabetes management | 1,099 | 213 | 428 |
| diabetic retinopathy screening and treatment | 1,041 | 231 | 236 |
| diabetic nephropathy risk and management | 1,013 | 277 | 220 |
| diabetes and chronic kidney disease (ckd) | 913 | 250 | 233 |
| diabetic skin conditions and care | 870 | 213 | 145 |
| peripheral artery disease in diabetic patients | 852 | 179 | 154 |
| endocrinology & diabetes treatment centers | 840 | 210 | 256 |
| diabetes foot ulcer prevention and care | 836 | 194 | 149 |
| diabetic-friendly footwear | 809 | 284 | 277 |
| diabetes-related mental health support | 790 | 181 | 159 |
| gestational diabetes monitoring and care | 786 | 191 | 173 |
| elderly diabetes management | 702 | 153 | 157 |
| diabetic ketoacidosis (dka) treatment protocols | 570 | 147 | 121 |
| diabetes and cardiovascular complication prevention | 559 | 99 | 177 |
| pediatric endocrine disorders and diabetes | 523 | 95 | 152 |
| hyperglycemia management in diabetes | 469 | 80 | 159 |
| bariatric surgery impact on diabetes outcomes | 408 | 101 | 114 |
| dental and oral health in diabetes | 345 | 77 | 80 |
| diabetes self-management education (dsme) | 246 | 41 | 81 |
| gestational diabetes management | 202 | 49 | 52 |
Patent assignees in full25 names
| Assignee | Patents | Since 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| NOVO NORDISK AS | 937 | 370 |
| KVASENKOV OLEG IVANOVICH | 748 | 0 |
| SANOFI AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND | 644 | 81 |
| MERCK SHARP & DOHME | 612 | 80 |
| BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INT | 597 | 149 |
| LILLY CO ELI | 558 | 232 |
| HOFFMANN LA ROCHE | 550 | 58 |
| HANMI PHARM IND CO LTD | 398 | 240 |
| SANOFI SA | 338 | 71 |
| PFIZER | 254 | 163 |
| ZEALAND PHARMA AS | 228 | 89 |
| JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA NV | 218 | 58 |
| MERCK PATENT GMBH | 214 | 0 |
| DEXCOM INC | 200 | 157 |
| MEDIMMUNE LTD | 194 | 101 |
| UNIV CALIFORNIA | 179 | 45 |
| ASTRAZENECA AB | 179 | 53 |
| AMGEN INC | 166 | 59 |
| UNIV INDIANA RES & TECH CORP | 163 | 17 |
| BEIJING LVYUANQIUZHENG TECHNOLOGY DEV CO LTD | 139 | 0 |
| NOVARTIS AG | 124 | 4 |
| INST NAT SANTE RECH MED | 118 | 68 |
| ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH | 118 | 2 |
| UNIV VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION | 117 | 76 |
| CAREGEN CO LTD | 116 | 72 |
Substances in the research record30 indexed
| Substance | Records | Before 2022 | 2022 onward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hypoglycemic Agents | 25,355 | 17,069 | 8,286 |
| Blood Glucose | 24,948 | 17,520 | 7,428 |
| Glycated Hemoglobin | 16,586 | 11,255 | 5,331 |
| Insulin | 13,483 | 9,529 | 3,954 |
| Biomarkers | 10,029 | 7,273 | 2,756 |
| Glucose | 6,616 | 3,193 | 3,423 |
| Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors | 6,101 | 2,757 | 3,344 |
| hemoglobin A1c protein, human | 5,985 | 5,084 | 901 |
| Metformin | 5,949 | 4,092 | 1,857 |
| Dipeptidyl-Peptidase IV Inhibitors | 3,415 | 2,384 | 1,031 |
| Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 | 3,100 | 1,797 | 1,303 |
| Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists | 2,818 | 896 | 1,922 |
| Triglycerides | 2,752 | 1,898 | 854 |
| Glucosides | 2,617 | 1,586 | 1,031 |
| Lipids | 2,485 | 1,778 | 707 |
| Benzhydryl Compounds | 2,375 | 1,388 | 987 |
| Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor | 1,614 | 980 | 634 |
| Sulfonylurea Compounds | 1,581 | 1,232 | 349 |
| Cholesterol, LDL | 1,435 | 1,005 | 430 |
| Cholesterol | 1,404 | 978 | 426 |
| Liraglutide | 1,399 | 989 | 410 |
| MicroRNAs | 1,346 | 808 | 538 |
| Cholesterol, HDL | 1,345 | 983 | 362 |
| Antioxidants | 1,330 | 883 | 447 |
| Glucagon-Like Peptides | 1,308 | 497 | 811 |
| C-Reactive Protein | 1,279 | 967 | 312 |
| Plant Extracts | 1,275 | 871 | 404 |
| Incretins | 1,263 | 924 | 339 |
| Peptides | 1,229 | 929 | 300 |
| empagliflozin | 1,195 | 677 | 518 |
Company locations30 cities
| City | Country | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| San Diego | United States | 32 |
| San Francisco | United States | 21 |
| Boston | United States | 20 |
| London | United Kingdom | 18 |
| New York City | United States | 17 |
| Seoul | South Korea | 12 |
| Manila | Philippines | 11 |
| Cambridge | United States | 11 |
| Paris | France | 9 |
| Singapore | Singapore | 9 |
| Bengaluru | India | 9 |
| Taipei | Taiwan | 8 |
| Tel Aviv | Israel | 8 |
| Chennai | India | 7 |
| Palo Alto | United States | 7 |
| Hong Kong | China | 7 |
| Los Angeles | United States | 7 |
| Toronto | Canada | 7 |
| Vancouver | Canada | 6 |
| Montreal | Canada | 6 |
| Hangzhou | China | 6 |
| Cambridge | United Kingdom | 6 |
| Beijing | China | 6 |
| Shanghai | China | 6 |
| Irvine | United States | 6 |
| Stockholm | Sweden | 5 |
| Ahmedabad | India | 5 |
| Zurich | Switzerland | 5 |
| Seongnam-si | South Korea | 5 |
| Delhi | India | 5 |
Sources & methods
Every window, every corpus and every limit that shapes a figure above.
- What this report is
- One subject seen through five separate corpora. Nothing here is a clinical guideline, a diagnosis or a treatment recommendation. Where two corpora disagree, both are shown.
- Scope
- The evidence graph and the research chapter are scoped to type 2 diabetes specifically. The news, patent and company chapters are scoped to diabetes as a whole, because those three corpora rarely separate the types; where a figure covers all diabetes it says so.
- The claim record
- 182,350 statements extracted from 122,065 research and news documents, each carrying a relation, a direction, a study design and a GRADE-style evidence strength. "High-strength" means high or very high. It describes the design behind a claim, not whether the claim is correct.
- Research
- Indexed research records carrying the subject heading, 2012–2025. Study design is as recorded on each record.
- News
- 87,528 articles matched by the news model's subcategory labels, May 2021–Apr 2026, from the Prism news corpus. Ingest does not stop cleanly, it tails off: weekly volume through May 2026 runs 720k, 750k, 446k then 348k, and June holds about a fifth of a normal month. The window therefore ends with the last month that is whole, and the final point on the monthly chart is drawn dashed because even it is still filling in.
- Patents
- Publications 2010–2024 whose title matches the subject terms. Publication lags filing by roughly eighteen months.
- Companies
- 1,260 companies from the Prism company record carrying the Diabetes sector classification, joined to 1,755 funding rounds. Amounts are disclosed values only; the record's own total-funding field is unpopulated for all but a handful of these companies and is not used.
- Community voice
- 572,618 typed signals drawn from public patient and carer conversations through Prism social signals, each carrying what the message was doing (asking, recommending, reporting a side effect), a polarity and an aspect. Not a survey and not evidence: the people who post are not a sample of everyone with the condition. Wording is as written, lightly tidied; no individual, forum or platform is identified.
- What is being built
- Themes are keyword sets over each company's own description of itself, across the 1,199 companies that carry one. A company can sit in several themes, so the counts do not sum to the total.
- Filed accounts
- Statutory annual accounts as filed, keyed to the registered legal entity rather than to a brand: one brand can file under several entities. Figures in rupee crore. Net margin is profit after tax over revenue from operations. EBITDA is not derived here because it is meaningless for lenders and several of these entities are not manufacturers. The United States view is withheld on this page, not absent; its coverage counts are stated as they are.
- App marketplace
- 759 listings whose title names the condition, with install counts and ratings as published by the marketplace. An install is not a user and a listing is not a regulated device.
- What is not merged
- Terms that mean the same thing in different words are not merged in the claim record, so a subject's totals can be split across spellings. The explorer states the same limit.