{"id":78557,"date":"2018-05-09T22:34:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T05:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/new-wearable-oral-sodium-sensor-to-help-fight-hypertension"},"modified":"2018-05-09T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T05:34:20","slug":"new-wearable-oral-sodium-sensor-to-help-fight-hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/new-wearable-oral-sodium-sensor-to-help-fight-hypertension","title":{"rendered":"New Wearable Oral Sodium Sensor to Help Fight Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-wearable-oral-sodium-sensor-to-help-fight-hypertension.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a flexible, wearable oral sodium sensor that could help monitor a person\u2019s sodium intake.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A leading cause of hypertension is a person\u2019s uncontrolled salt intake. This often results in high blood pressure and heart complications.<\/p>\n<p>As a solution, the Georgia Institute of Technology researchers built the <strong>oral sodium sensor<\/strong> that could be easily worn in the mouth to monitor salt intake.<\/p>\n<p>The sensor reportedly incorporates a small, adaptable <strong>electronic framework<\/strong> that uses <strong>Bluetooth technology<\/strong> to transfer the data about a person\u2019s <strong>sodium intake<\/strong> into a mobile device or tablet. On the other hand, the structure of the device is said to be based on an ultrathin, breathable elastomeric membrane.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/edgylabs.com\/wearable-oral-sodium-sensor-to-help-people-with-hypertension\">https:\/\/edgylabs.com\/wearable-oral-sodium-sensor-to-help-peo...pertension<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a flexible, wearable oral sodium sensor that could help monitor a person\u2019s sodium intake. A leading cause of hypertension is a person\u2019s uncontrolled salt intake. This often results in high blood pressure and heart complications. As a solution, the Georgia Institute of Technology researchers built the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78557","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\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}