A Chinese research team managed to develop a system to monitor vital indicators associated with Parkinson’s (Parkinson’s) through a small wearable adhesive.
The study, conducted by a team from the Changchon Institute for Applied Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, showed that the system can achieve immediate monitoring of vital indicators in the race, allowing a dynamically non -surgical follow -up to the development of the disease and provides possibilities for early intervention to treat “Parkinson’s” patients.
Parkinson’s disease is a nervous disorder that is gradually developing and is difficult to discover in its early stages, because its symptoms do not appear until many years after the start of damage to neurons. There is no treatment for the disease, and patients are mainly dependent on the long -term drug therapy to manage their condition and stability, and for diagnosis and early prediction a very important role in treatment.
The leader of the research team, Zhang Qiang, said that although the adhesive is the size of a medical bandage, it contains a miniature detector developed by the team that spent about 3 years in testing and developing this wearable system.
He explained that the system allows monitoring several vital indicators linked to Parkinson’s disease, such as glucose, by analyzing sweat on the surface of the skin without the need to take blood samples or injections.
The system consists of a vital microfolic unit to collect sweat in the stillness of stillness, an advanced electrochemical sensor to monitor vital indicators, in addition to the site’s signal processing circuit to deal with data, and programs dedicated to displaying data in actual time on a smart application, as it is similar to an installation of a body translator that transforms vital signals in the sweat into understandable information that the patient can benefit from.
Through the self -operating slide, samples can be collected steadily even during movement, and the elastic sensor poles enable the simultaneous evaluation of several vital indicators, and the data processing unit displays the results of wireless monitoring in the actual time.