Mount Sinai, mPulse Mobile team up to reduce teenage diabetes

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The rising levels of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in American youth is quickly becoming a major public health concern. To help address this problem, Mount Sinai partnered with mPulse Mobile, a company that offers a AI-based mobile patient messaging platform. Together with a group of teenage community members, they created a text message-based youth diabetes prevention program focused on integrating healthy behaviors into teens’ lives.