{"id":88825,"date":"2019-03-20T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/this-high-tech-toilet-seat-can-detect-heart-failure"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:02:35","slug":"this-high-tech-toilet-seat-can-detect-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/this-high-tech-toilet-seat-can-detect-heart-failure","title":{"rendered":"This High-Tech Toilet Seat Can Detect Heart Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-high-tech-toilet-seat-can-detect-heart-failure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology <a href=\"https:\/\/mhealth.jmir.org\/2019\/1\/e12419\/\">invented<\/a> a \u201ctoilet seat-based cardiovascular monitoring system\u201d that could help hospitals monitor patients for risk of congestive heart failure \u2014 a toilet, in other words, that detects whether your heart is about to give out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis system will be uniquely positioned to capture trend data in the home that has been previously unattainable,\u201d reads <a href=\"https:\/\/mhealth.jmir.org\/2019\/1\/e12419\/\">the paper<\/a>, published in the journal <em>JMIR Mhealth Uhealth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Integrated into the seat is a device that <strong>measures<\/strong> heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygenation levels. Algorithms will take in all that data and notify health practitioners if the patient\u2019s condition deteriorates.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/toilet-seat-heart-failure\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/toilet-seat-heart-failure\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology invented a \u201ctoilet seat-based cardiovascular monitoring system\u201d that could help hospitals monitor patients for risk of congestive heart failure \u2014 a toilet, in other words, that detects whether your heart is about to give out. \u201cThis system will be uniquely positioned to capture trend data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88825","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}