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  • Wearable technology continuously monitors heart-rate recovery to predict risk

    Apr 9, 2025 11:00 am by Diana YatesResearch
    Graduate student Jonathan Cerna monitors heart data from a “smart shirt” that tracks electrical activity as graduate student Laila Shaaban exercises and rests. Researchers are working to develop the technology to make heart-related predictions more widely accessible through the use of wearables. Photo by Fred Zwicky

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    U. of I. researchers used a 'smart shirt' to track participants’ heart-rate recovery after exercise and developed a tool for analyzing the data to predict those at higher risk of heart-related ailments. 

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