AI wearable provides early warning of heart failure

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Researchers in the US have developed wearable AI-enabled sensor technology that they claim could be used by doctors to remotely monitor heart patients and provide early warning of potential heart failure.  

The group, which includes researchers from the University of Utah Health and VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, claims that the system could help avert up to one in three heart failure readmissions in the weeks following initial discharge from the hospital.

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Josef Stehlik, lead author of a study on the technology published in Circulation: Heart Failure said: "This study shows that we can accurately predict the likelihood of hospitalisation for heart failure deterioration well before doctors and patients know that something is wrong.”

The researchers followed 100 heart failure patients, average age 68, who were diagnosed and treated at four different hospitals. After discharge, these patients wore an adhesive sensor patch on their chests 24 hours a day for up to three months. The sensor monitored continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) and motion of each subject.

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