Keeping blood sugar in check, for a better life
Keeping blood sugar in check, for a better life
Early Action on Diabetes｜WWHS NIR-II POCT Full-Cycle Testing
The global theme of World Diabetes Day 2026–2027 is "Early Action on Diabetes." On November 14, the day lit by the blue circle, one message stands out: with diabetes, the most important thing is not waiting until something goes wrong, but acting earlier — detecting earlier, intervening earlier.
According to the latest International Diabetes Federation (IDF) data, around 589 million adults worldwide were living with diabetes in 2024 — roughly one in nine. Among them, China has the world's largest diabetic population, with about 148 million adults, and nearly four in ten do not know they have the condition.
Why early action matters so much
Many people think the threat of diabetes is simply high blood sugar. In fact, the real risk lies in its complications — especially diabetic kidney disease.
Diabetic kidney disease is nearly symptom-free in its early stages yet progresses silently. Globally, about 30%–40% of people with diabetes will develop some degree of kidney damage. In China, diabetic kidney disease has already overtaken glomerulonephritis as the leading cause of new dialysis patients. By the time the body sends obvious signals, the best window for intervention has often already passed.
That is why "early" matters so much — detecting diabetes early, and preventing diabetic kidney disease even earlier.
One chain covering "diagnosis → follow-up → complication alert"
To meet this need, WWHS links diabetes management into one complete testing chain, covering every step from diagnosis to follow-up to complication alert:
Diagnosis & follow-up: glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is the "gold standard" for long-term blood sugar control, while insulin and C-peptide help assess pancreatic function. Together they answer one question — how well is your blood sugar being managed?
Complication alert: microalbumin (MAU), β2-microglobulin（β2-MG）, and cystatin C (Cys-C) are sensitive early signals of kidney injury, helping clinicians "find it one step earlier" before the kidneys are clearly damaged.
Walk through this chain, and what a person gains is no longer a single isolated lab report, but a continuous, complete picture of their own health.
NIR-II technology, bringing testing to your doorstep
Powering this chain is WWHS's NIR-II technology — interference-resistant, stable, and fast. It brings testing that once required a big hospital and a long wait right into the community, right to your doorstep — turning "early action" from a slogan into something everyone can reach.
Find it one step earlier, be one step more certain
For people living with diabetes, all of this comes down to a simple feeling: every test finds risk one step earlier, and brings one step more certainty.
What they gain is never a pile of numbers they cannot read, but the reassurance of "find it one step earlier, be one step more certain" — turning anxiety about the unknown into a sense of control over their own body.
Closing
Keeping blood sugar in check, for a better life.
Innovating Life Tech For All — WWHS will continue to safeguard the full cycle of diabetes care with NIR-II technology, walking alongside every person living with diabetes, and turning "early action" into reality, so that a better life arrives a little sooner.
