There are already at-home devices that can offer insight into your heart health, like at-home blood pressure monitors. The problem with at-home devices is that patients don’t often use them properly. Many patients either don’t keep track of their heart health or don’t perform these at-home tests correctly, yielding incorrect results.
But monitoring your heart health at home may soon become as easy as sitting on a toilet.
Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology have developed a toilet seat that can measure important cardiovascular parameters all while a person uses it as they usually would. This new toilet seat can measure blood pressure, stroke volume, blood oxygenation, heart rate, heart rate variability, QRS duration, and QT interval. It can also measure weight if the individual raises their feet off the ground.
The toilet seats measurements have been compared to those devices used in hospital settings. It’s been found that the toilet seats measurements are not far off from those gathered using hospital equipment.
It’s still unclear as to where or when this toilet seat will be made available to the public, but it goes to show that in the near future, keeping track of your heart health at home will become far easier.
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