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SUMMARY:Using wearables &amp\; AI to transform our understanding of health
  - Aiden Doherty (Oxford University)
DTSTART:20231120T133000Z
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CONTACT:Spencer Keene
DESCRIPTION:Smartphones and wearable devices provide a major opportunity t
 o transform our understanding of the mechanisms\, determinants\, and conse
 quences of diseases\, including arthritis\, dementia\, and heart disease. 
 For example\, around 9 in 10 people own a smartphone in the United Kingdom
 \, while one-fifth of US adults own wearable technologies. This high level
  of device ownership means that many people could contribute to health res
 earch from the comfort of their home by offering small amounts of time to 
 share data and help address health-related questions that matter to them. 
 A leading example is the seven day wrist-worn accelerometer data measured 
 in 100\,000 UK Biobank participants between 2013-2015 that has led to impo
 rtant new findings. These include discoveries of: new genetic variants for
  sleep and activity\; small amounts of vigorous non-exercise physical acti
 vity being associated with substantially lower mortality\; and no apparent
  upper threshold to the benefits of physical activity with respect to card
 iovascular disease risk. In this talk I will review progress made in this 
 exciting new area of health data science and share opportunities to provid
 e new insights into physical activity\, sleep\, heart rhythms and their ro
 le in health and disease.
LOCATION:Heart and Lung Research Institute (ground floor) or Virtually via
  Zoom
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