Feasibility of a T-Shirt-Type Wearable Electrocardiography Monitor for Detection of Covert Atrial Fibrillation in Young Healthy Adults.

ABSTRACT: Covert atrial fibrillation (AF) accounts for cryptogenic stroke aetiology in elderly patients and in younger populations. However, asymptomatic AF is difficult to diagnose based on a short electrocardiography (ECG) recording. We evaluated the feasibility of a self-applied continuous ECG monitoring device that can record automatically, easily, and noninvasively in a younger population. We investigated community screening for asymptomatic AF using a wireless single-lead ECG with an electrode embedded in a T-shirt. One hundred men with a CHADS2 score ≥1 who were free from AF and <65 years of age were enrolled. We instructed the participants to wear ECG monitoring devices for at least 4 days/week over 2 months. The proportion of participants with newly detected AF (NDAF) and the monitoring tim

SUBMITTER: Fukuma N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692346 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature