Wearable sensors can tell when you are getting sick, study shows

[antares4141]

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-wearable-biosensors-flag-illness-lyme.html

 

[Persimmon]

The senior author of the study being publicised is Prof Michael Snyder, head of genetics at Stanford.

Snyder has a big reputation, and is also a member of Ron Davis' ME research advisory board.

Using the "wearable sensors" being studied, Snyder realised some of his vital signs were deviating subtely from nornal, following a visit to Massechusets. This led to him correctly diagnosing his own Lyme disease, at a very early stage, and then treating it promptly.

This technology, once validated, obviously has many potential applications in identifying variations in a person's physiological functioning.

Eg It could be applied to (objectively) identify and quantify health fluctuations in ME - including PEM.

 

[trishrhymes]

I agree, and that's what makes me so angry trials like PACE and FITNET don't use them. We need objective data.

 

[AndyPR]

I have a Fitbit HR and over exertion, fighting off a cold or a change for the worse in my diet can be seen in variation in my heart rate, normally most noticeable in my resting/sleeping heart rate.

 

[*GG*]

This study is going to include wearing a heart monitor and a Daytime activity monitor, not sure what the later is.

GG

 

[Strawberry]

I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the room to see which wearables were their best detectors.