"A T-shirt that constantly monitors the heart’s activity and detects abnormalities could help protect people against stroke — and may even help diagnose the cause of fainting.
The high-tech shirt, called Cardioskin, has electrodes stitched into the cotton fabric which carry out round-the-clock checks on the heart’s electrical activity.
These then connect to a tiny chip in the garment which wirelessly beams the results to an app on the patient’s smartphone.
The app is able to share the data with a cardiologist, who can assess it.
The T-shirt, which can be washed up to 35 times before it needs replacing, has been developed to improve the detection of dangerous heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation...
The results are shared with the patient’s doctor so they can check the patient’s heart without having to call them into the clinic for an appointment.
The T-shirt can detect other problems linked to faulty heart rhythms such as syncope, which produces frequent episodes of fainting.
The T-shirt, developed by French drugs company Servier, has been approved for sale in the UK and is expected to become available for doctors to use later this year, although the price has not yet been announced."
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Hi-tech T-shirt that could help doctors detect risk of stroke
