Healthcare company  Welldoc  says the results of a study in the US show that blood sugar levels fell faster with patients using its mobile, diabetes-managing application than those without it.  The study into Welldoc’s application was conducted by the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The full version of the study will be published in next month’s issue of Diabetes Care, a leading scientific journal that is published by the American Diabetes Association.

“We studied the impact of combining web and mobile-based patient coaching with clinical decision support for community primary care providers, and compared this approach with standard diabetes management or usual care alone,” said Charlene Quinn, University of Maryland School of Medicine and lead investigator on the study.

The study found that the amount of haemoglobin A1c in a person’s blood fell by an average of 1.9 percent over one year among those patients using Welldoc’s application, against 0.7 percent among standard patients who did not make use of the company’s application.