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Wearable adhesive patch sensor accurately predicted worsening heart failure

February 25, 2020

Wearing a removable, adhesive patch sensor accurately predicted worsening heart failure and the need for hospitalization several days before heart failure hospitalization occurred among veterans with heart failure, according to research published today in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation: Heart Failure.

The participants in the LINK-HF multi-center study consisted of one hundred heart failure (HF) patients who were veterans, average age of 68 years, enrolled at four Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals — in Salt Lake City; Palo Alto, Calif.; Houston, and Gainesville, Fla. — after an initial acute heart failure admission to the hospital.

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