Diabetes affects 5% of the French population, which is over 4 million people. Depending on the type of diabetes diagnosed, there is no other solution than to take insulin for life in order to continue living normally.
Wishing to simplify access to care for those affected, Emmanuel Claude decided to venture into entrepreneurship 12 years ago: “At that time, I was attending international congresses in diabetology and I realized that there were many products available for diabetic patients that were not found in France”, recounts the founder of Alphadiab.
Anyone can develop diabetes at any point in their life: “Diabetes has many faces(...) It can be a 6-month-old newborn, an elderly person in a nursing home, or a young adult with a hectic daily life”, continues Emmanuel Claude.
This is one of the reasons that drove him to develop his business, as treatments were not suitable for all body types: “the offering was mass-market”, he explains.
A strong advocate for diabetes screening, this entrepreneur explains that there are between “500,000 and 800,000 people who do not know they are diabetic” and suddenly discover that urgent intervention is needed for complications related to the disease: “Diabetes accounts for 8,000 foot amputations per year in France, it is the leading cause of blindness and many cases of heart attacks and strokes…”
However, “things are accelerating” in terms of technological advancements aimed at improving the daily lives of diabetics: “In the 2000s, when I entered this market, the insulin pump fit in a pocket. Today, it sits on the skin because it’s a patch pump, and it is also connected to a glucose sensor.” This evolution greatly simplifies the daily lives of these individuals as they have real-time access to their blood sugar levels.
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