Doctor: Diabetes can be detected by voice

Endocrinologist Dr. Zahra Pavlova announced that diabetes can be detected by voice.

The specialist points out that the Mayo Clinic website published the results of experiments conducted by Canadian scientists using artificial intelligence, which analyzed audio recordings of healthy people and people suffering from diabetes, who had to record the same phrase every day for two weeks.

“It turns out that the pitch, intensity, softness and vibration of healthy people’s voices are very different from those of diabetic patients,” she says. “When taking into account age, gender, height and weight, the accuracy of identifying patients using voice was 86 percent for men and 89 percent for women.”

Pavlova points out that, according to the study, the intensity of the voice of men with diabetes changes and may tremble, and in women, the tone of their voice changes and often sounds hoarse and sometimes disappears.

According to her, researchers believe that the reasons for these changes are related to damage to muscle fibers, including the vocal cords, and this occurs when the level of glucose in the blood rises, and these changes in the voice increase due to anxiety and depression.