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(24 Nov 2017) LEADIN:
Fitness trackers and heart rate monitors have become must have devices for people who want to keep fit, but wearable technology has been slower taking off.
Now a start-up in Ukraine has come up with a smart fitness T-shirt that it hopes will make people change the way they monitor their workouts.
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Olena Goropko is wearing the HeartIn smart sports T-shirt. As she works out, the T-shirt is measuring her pulse and sending ECG data in real time to an app that displays on her phone.
Fitted with data analysis electrodes, fabric-integrated wires and sensors the T-shirt transfers the signals to a tracking unit from where data is sent to the app, which analyses it and provides training insights, live cardio zone statistics, an ongoing fatigue assessment, training intensity and stress levels.
Goropko says she prefers using a T-shirt over a smart watch to monitor her workout because she doesn't have to keep checking her wrist.
"This T-shirt is absolutely comfortable for me and it even fits me perfectly. It is very convenient that there is no need to look at my hand to control the pulse whether it gets to a critical rate or it doesn't. It tells you this information through the app automatically," she says.
Goropko works as an on call doctor at the Kiev marathons.
"This app allows you to understand and to prevent problems in advance before a person might feel any fatigue or discomfort for example. It can probably prevent (ventricular) arrhythmia, heart attack or, heaven forbid, fatality. This T-shirt can save lives," she says.
Fitness instructor Iryna Samus advises her clients to monitor their pulse themselves and not rely on fitness gadgets.
"Nowadays (fitness) devices are becoming more and more popular, but unfortunately not all of them are able to give an accurate picture of person's health condition and cardiovascular system. I recommend my clients take a break from time to time and measure their pulse by themselves. It has be done by touching the carotid artery for 10 seconds and then multiply the result six times. It will say the accurate pulse per minute. Sensors are recommended to be used by those who have congenital diseases of the cardiovascular system or by those who want to run a marathon for example. As you know marathons became very popular, but unfortunately deaths are not unheard of there."
HeartIn says the device is 99% accurate and is aimed at helping people prevent serious injury through pushing themselves too far.
The app sends alarm signals if the ECG or pulse shows dangerous levels. ECG data can also be sent to a doctor for remote monitoring.
"This T-shirt measures electrocardiography in the 1 lead ECG. It contains textile electrodes which are not attached but sewn into the cloth. Then the signal goes (from electrodes) through the metallised fabric's integrated wires to the button snaps. After that the data is transferred from the button snaps to the 1 lead ECG. It transfers information to an app in the phone by Bluetooth," explains HeartIn co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Dmytro Fedkov.
"We decided to start in the fitness market and to partially include medical equipment, without calling it medical because that requires certification, although it inherently is medical, into a fitness device and make it for ordinary for people. In this way they will understand that knowing objective information about yourself before something happens is an effective way to live longer, better and to get more pleasure out of life."
Cardiologist Yuriy Sychenko says he welcomes any technology that helps doctors make remote assessments.

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