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ReviewiScience2025

Generative artificial intelligence in diabetes healthcare.

Josep Vehi, Omer Mujahid, Aleix Beneyto, Ivan Contreras

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Review in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Josep VehiModeling and Intelligent Control Engineering Laboratory, Institut d'Informàtica i Aplicacions, Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain.
Omer MujahidModeling and Intelligent Control Engineering Laboratory, Institut d'Informàtica i Aplicacions, Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain.
Aleix BeneytoModeling and Intelligent Control Engineering Laboratory, Institut d'Informàtica i Aplicacions, Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain.
Ivan ContrerasModeling and Intelligent Control Engineering Laboratory, Institut d'Informàtica i Aplicacions, Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been fueled by breakthroughs in large language models and applications across diverse domains, from creative content to scientific discovery. Its strength lies in modeling, simulating, and generating high-fidelity data. In diabetes care, generative AI enables solutions to challenges such as data scarcity, patient variability, and personalization. This article explores key deep generative models, including variational autoencoders, generative adversarial networks, transformers, and diffusion models applied to tabular, time series, image, and text data. These models enable synthetic patient data generation, dataset augmentation, glucose-insulin dynamics simulation, and the development of virtual coaches and digital twins. Despite these advances, challenges persist, including model instability, high data requirements, and output interpretability. This article reviews the current literature and outlines opportunities, limitations, and ethical considerations for the use of generative AI in diabetes healthcare.

Indexed as

Artificial intelligenceDiabetologyHealth sciences

Identifiers

PMID40703444
PMCPMC12284359

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