Futurity November 18, 2022
Data gathered from wearable activity trackers can be used to obtain several metrics associated with the user’s general physical health and cardiovascular health status, a new study shows.
While these sensors are generally marketed as daily step counters, the researchers believe they could potentially serve a greater purpose: supporting clinical care for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and other chronic diseases.
“The purpose of this study was to show that clinically relevant metrics beyond daily step count can be derived from these wearable activity monitors,” says Zheng “Peter” Xu, a postdoctoral fellow for inHealth, a strategic initiative to advance precision medicine at Johns Hopkins University and first author of the study in Digital Medicine.
“Historically, remote monitoring of a...
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