McKnight's May 24, 2022
A new voice analysis app may be able to detect worsening heart failure in home care patients prior to hospitalization, a new study has found.
Researchers from The Ohio State University studied the use of a speech analysis app that was previously used to detect fluids in the lung of patients with acute heart failure to study its ability to predict worsening heart failure in patients living at home.
“In this community-based study, a voice analysis app was able to predict most cases of worsening heart failure well in advance, with very few false alarms,” said study author Professor William Abraham of The Ohio State University in Columbus.
The findings were presented on May 21 at Heart Failure 2022, a...
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