{"id":212569,"date":"2025-04-27T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/handheld-device-could-transform-heart-disease-screening"},"modified":"2025-04-27T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T19:18:55","slug":"handheld-device-could-transform-heart-disease-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/handheld-device-could-transform-heart-disease-screening","title":{"rendered":"Handheld device could transform heart disease screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/handheld-device-could-transform-heart-disease-screening.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a handheld device that could potentially replace stethoscopes as a tool for detecting certain types of heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed a device that makes it easy for people with or without medical training to record heart sounds accurately. Unlike a stethoscope, the device works well even if it\u2019s not placed precisely on the chest: its larger, flexible sensing area helps capture clearer heart sounds than traditional stethoscopes.<\/p>\n<p>The device can also be used over clothing, making it more comfortable for patients \u2013 especially women \u2013 during routine check-ups or community heart health screening programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a handheld device that could potentially replace stethoscopes as a tool for detecting certain types of heart disease. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed a device that makes it easy for people with or without medical training to record heart sounds accurately. Unlike a stethoscope, the device works well even [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}