Monitoring people’s breathing helps diagnose, or even treat, different conditions
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Forget the face identification – have a new way to get to know you. Researchers discovered that we all have a “respiratory fingerprint”, a unique way of breathing can change how we diagnose and treat different HEALTH conditions, from extreme fatigue.
The collapse comes from Sign shoulders In the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and his colleagues, developing a usable device that earns adverse nuances of how we respond.
“This (work) is interesting. It thinks of many questions about how the respiratory signs related to health and mental conditions – says Torben foreheadnot involved in research, in OSMO in New York, a AI company intending to give computed odor.
The idea that breathing patterns contains health information is not new – dating job back in the 1950s years in this connection. But without a available device that can record the nasal breathing data while a person acts, research is limited to monitored patients in less than one hour.
To get it out, Soroka and his companions make a useful device and it gives it to 97 people wearing it for 24 hours. They immediately train an algorithm to distinguish unique combinations of 24 parameters – all from the amount of air shorts to how often the air breathe. The algorithm will determine participants near 97 percent of accuracy, and this signature remains stable in a two-year follow-up period.
However, “don’t expect to have a Nasal airflow recording next to the bank”, as the team member Noam Sobernalso at Weizmann Institute. The goal is not to use the device for biometrics, he says, but rather expires the precious health information.
For example, an index of a person’s body can be predicted by a combination of parameters of the nasal cycle, the rhythm where each nose knot is spreading a lot more.
This cycle is governed by the balance of your sympathetic nervous system, which prepares the body for a “fight or flight” system, and the body gathering, says the body is calm. “So by measuring the air in your nose, you actually get a measure of your sympathy, and as a BMI predictor.”
It produces an exciting possibility, says curse: Instead of getting the weighted cause of breathing changes, can breathing patterns influence weight? “If that’s true, we’ll find the breathing pattern that slowed you down and our whole group will retire and live on an island,” he said.
The respiratory data also reveals correls between breathing and level of breathing aspects ANXIETY and depressed symptoms. People with high levels of broken symptoms hurt faster infant.
The team is currently investigating whether breathing patterns of true symptoms, to determine if they can be used to identify some common mental health conditions, which can be treated by breathing exercise.
“It is not difficult to imagine a future where each patient was given a nasal monitoring device that tracks treatment, provides feedback and predicts the consequences for a 24 metrics used by the team to measure different aspects of breathing. A device also helps individuals to recognize if their breath is straying from normal. “It has the potential to have a great impact on human health,” Noo said.
