Multi-Analyte Sensing for Comprehensive Health Monitoring

Example 2

With reference to FIG. 2, in an embodiment, the sensors 220, 222, 224 may each sense a different analyte. For example, the sensor 220 could be for sensing an inflammatory marker, such as cytokine, that changes slowly in the body and slowly in interstitial fluid, the sensor 222 could be a fluorometric sensor for glucose in interstitial fluid, and the sensor 224 could be a sweat sensor for cortisol. The sensor 220 could measure the longer-term effects of stressors on the body (e.g., inflammation), whereas the sensor 224 could measure the short term effects of stress on the body. For example, if a patient had a panic attack, cortisol levels could rise rapidly, and the rate of rise of cortisol as sensed by the sensor 224 could provide an indication of the severity of the panic attack. The prolonged effect of the panic attack could also be measured by sensor 220 by measuring at least one cytokine level. The glucose sensor 222 could measure the effect of diet and health on the causality of the panic attack(s). Thus, in an embodiment, two or more of the sensors are for sensing a 1^st analyte and 2^nd analyte that are different, one sensor sensing the 1^st analyte in a biofluid that is not sweat and the other sensor sensing the 2^nd analyte in sweat.