The technology in smartwatches and fitness trackers that can monitor our heart rate could be used to transform health and fitness monitoring in daily life and directly inform clinical decision making, according to a comprehensive new ‘Roadmap’ published today. The full potential of the sensing technology, called wearable photoplethysmography, is explored in the ‘2023 Wearable […]
Funds allocated to extend SAFER trial
The SAFER programme of research, investigating screening to detect atrial fibrillation, was awarded a funding extension by the National Institute for Health and Care Research in 2023. The SAFER research programme will now be funded to March 2028. The extension was necessary because of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the limited capacity of […]
NIHR awards £3m for new research to investigate screening to prevent one in ten strokes
A collaboration of several universities led by Cambridge has won a £3m funding award from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to lead a new programme of research investigating screening to detect undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, a heart condition responsible for one in ten strokes. The research will include the largest ever randomised controlled trial […]
NIHR award for research to improve management of congestive heart failure
Christi Deaton, Florence Nightingale Foundation Professor of Clinical Nursing Research, will lead a new programme of research to improve the care of patients with a common form of heart failure called Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF). The National Institute of Health Research School of Primary Care Research (NIHR SPCR) has awarded a grant […]