Diabetes management features added to MetLife 360Health app

MetLife 360Health mobile app has introduced a new feature to aid people in effectively managing their diabetes and raising awareness about the risks of the disease on Sunday.

This new feature includes diabetes risk assessment and blood sugar tracking equipment in most convenient way. Using this app, users will be able to know the risk of having diabetes by answering a few health and lifestyle-related questions.

Moreover, the user can track blood sugar on a weekly and monthly basis by inserting the concentration and time of the measurement said a press release.

In 2019, diabetes was the ninth leading cause of death worldwide with an estimated 1.5 million deaths directly caused by diabetes.

A recent study also finds that over 8 million people have diabetes in Bangladesh and almost half of them do not know that they have it.

MetLife 360health app is one of the most popular health apps in Bangladesh with over 2 lakh downloads.

The app offers a range of unique features including a BMI (Body Mass Index) calculator, Covid-19 symptom checker, individual health risk assessment, online medicine purchase, free virtual doctor consultations, and special discounts on diagnostic tests through digital life card.

This app’s preferential users are specialists like cardiologists, psychologists, nutritionists, gynecologists, gastrologists and general surgeons.

Commenting on this, Ala Ahmad, chief executive officer of MetLife Bangladesh, said that they want to help people live a healthy and worry-free life. With the newly added features, they believe a lot of users would be able to effectively manage the illness as diabetes.

This app’s information is available in online ‘Diabetes (who.int)’ and also in website www.metlife.com.bd