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Low cost ‘smart mask’ can detect disease from breath, researchers say | Hopes that device may improve diagnosis and monitoring of conditions such as lung and kidney disease
Hopes that device may improve diagnosis and monitoring of conditions such as lung and kidney disease
Researchers hope the device – which can beam its data to an app over Bluetooth – will offer an affordable and convenient way to capture and immediately analyse breath biomarkers related to respiratory and metabolic processes. Photograph: California Institute of Technology“For example, the mask we evaluated in this work can simultaneously monitor kidney conditions as well as airway inflammation in COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] and asthma.” The researchers said they used a double-pronged approach to condense breath: not only is the EBCare device made from a material that can easily lose heat, but it contains a hydrogel that is cooled by the natural evaporation of water.
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