Study: Portable devices help monitor bowel diseases

A study conducted by researchers at US “Mount Cenie” hospital showed the ability of bearable devices to determine the possible exacerbation of the symptoms of inflammatory bowel diseases such as “ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease”, which increases the ability to constantly and through common commercial devices. The results published in the journal “Gastroenterology” revealed that the bearable devices can predict the aggravation of inflammatory bowel disease, which can monitor the disease outside the healthcare environment and in a power continuously. Researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital recorded more than 300 participants with ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, from 36 US states. Participants carried devices, daily questionnaires filled for symptoms, and the provision of blood and faeces reviews to measure the level of inflammation. The researchers found that the daily patterns of heart rate fluctuations – an indication of the function of the nervous system – along with the heart rate, the oxygen level and the daily activity, measured by bearable devices, changed dramatically when inflammation or symptoms existed. These physiological indicators were also able to detect inflammation, even in the absence of symptoms, and could distinguish between the symptoms caused by an active intestines. The researchers also found that these indicators measured by portable devices even changed 7 weeks before the aggravation occurred. Effective tools in Disease Control, the lead author of the study, Robert Hurton, associate professor of digestive medicine, artificial intelligence and human health at IKAHN Medicine College in Mount Cenai The current methods of monitoring the disease “depends on the interaction of direct patients with their doctors, whether by clinic visits, blood tests or by colonos. Does not judge the disease. predicted.