Medical Xpress December 1, 2021
With the increasing prevalence of smartwatches and fitness trackers, what is the best way to harness the potential of these devices? A team of NIH-funded researchers has an idea—to use these wearable sensors as a way to predict clinical test results, which could potentially serve as an early warning signal for underlying health issues.
“Consumer wearable devices have enormous untapped potential to facilitate the monitoring—and potentially, the prediction—of human health and disease,” said Grace Peng, Ph.D., director of the NIBIB program in Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Analysis. “This study, which investigates how data from smartwatches are associated with clinical laboratory tests, is an important step forward in this burgeoning field.”
To better understand how smartwatches could be incorporated into routine...
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