Scientists have developed a thin, flexible skin patch, worn on the neck, that can provide all-in-one health monitoring capabilities, including the wearer s heart rate, blood pressure and glucose levels.
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Mount Sinai s Warrior Watch Study is ongoing. Other researchers have also found benefits in so-called wearables like the Apple Watch, Fitbit and other fitness trackers.
Nature Biomedical Engineering found that smartwatch data can help detect COVID-19 before it s diagnosed through a test. The researchers from Stanford University looked at factors including heart rate, number of daily steps or time asleep.
Retrospectively, they found for example that 63% of the COVID-19 cases could have been detected before symptom onset in real-time via a two-tiered warning system based on the occurrence of extreme elevations in resting heart rate relative to the individual baseline, the authors state in their paper.