Continuous Monitoring of Health and Mobility Indicators in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: A Review of Recent Technologies

Muhammad Ali Shiwani; Timothy J A Chico; Fabio Ciravegna; Lyudmila Mihaylova

doi:10.3390/s23125752

Continuous Monitoring of Health and Mobility Indicators in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: A Review of Recent Technologies

Sensors (Basel). 2023 Jun 20;23(12):5752. doi: 10.3390/s23125752.

Authors

Muhammad Ali Shiwani¹, Timothy J A Chico², Fabio Ciravegna³, Lyudmila Mihaylova¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK.
² Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, The Medical School, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK.
³ Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, 10124 Turin, Italy.

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases kill 18 million people each year. Currently, a patient's health is assessed only during clinical visits, which are often infrequent and provide little information on the person's health during daily life. Advances in mobile health technologies have allowed for the continuous monitoring of indicators of health and mobility during daily life by wearable and other devices. The ability to obtain such longitudinal, clinically relevant measurements could enhance the prevention, detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. This review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of various methods for monitoring patients with cardiovascular disease during daily life using wearable devices. We specifically discuss three distinct monitoring domains: physical activity monitoring, indoor home monitoring and physiological parameter monitoring.

Keywords: activity recognition; biomedical monitoring; cardiovascular disease; electrocardiography; indoor localisation; patient monitoring; photoplethysmography; prognosis and health management; remote monitoring; wearable devices.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cardiovascular Diseases*
Humans
Monitoring, Physiologic
Technology
Telemedicine*
Wearable Electronic Devices*

Grants and funding

We are grateful to the Healthy Lifespan Institute (HELSI) for providing the PhD scholarship of the first author. T.C. is funded by EPSRC project grant EP/X000257/1. His work is supported by the NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre (No award Number). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.