According to a new study conducted by Finnish scientists, modern smartphones can be used to detect heart disease. Specialists have developed a mobile application that uses a built-in accelerometer and a phone gyroscope to diagnose flickering arrhythmia.
Cleaning arrhythmia (or fibrillation Atrial - FP) One of the most common types of arrhythmias. This disease suffer from 1 to 2% of the population of the Earth.
"Cleaning arrhythmia is the cause of about seven million strokes per year," says the lead author of the study of Tero Koivist from the University of Turku, Finland. Only in the European Union for the fight against This disease is allocated annually about $ 19 billion. "
Approximately 70% of those caused by FP strokes could be avoided by prophylactic treatment. But the disease is manifested spontaneously, and to diagnose it when visiting the doctor is difficult. For long-term monitoring of the patient's heart, the patient's hearts are used expensive and cumbersome ECG devices that require connecting to the body.
For this reason, scientists decided to investigate the possibilities of the smartphone to detect signs of flickering arrhythmia without any additional hardware. The study took part 16 patients with atrial fibrillation and 20 healthy people as a control group.
To diagnose the disease on the patient's chest, a smartphone was placed by activating the accelerometer and gyroscope. With the help of a new method, specialists managed to detect atrial fibrillation with an accuracy of 95%.
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