When a group of researchers from California began a Covid-19 study using fitness tracking rings in 2020, they did not know that they would carry forward a jump for a completely different situation.
In the early days of the epidemic, more than 20,000 people from 106 different countries signed to participate in the Tempradict Studies from San Francisco University, San Francisco, according to the 5 February paper published in the Journal Scientific Report.
According to the study, the researchers determined to find out that off-the-shelf fitness and health trackers worn on the body could be used to detect early symptoms of Covid-19.
Researchers stated that all participants, 20,880, bought and worn a ring, a ring that feels data, body temperature, oxygen levels and other fitness indicators.
During the seven months, the participants presented their important signals collected by the ring and stored in a phone app, and also self-report their feelings and mental health in daily surveys.
Can the ring predict Kovid -19? Yes, researchers found. According to the study, the ring indicated that the participants were infected on an average of 2.75 days before the participants conduct positive tests.
But it was not the only data that stood for the research team.
The study found that participants with high body temperatures also reported high rates of depression and feelings of depression, while users were used by awake temperature.
Researchers said, “In particular, these analyzes repeated pre-results, which were associated with the symptoms of depression more than the self-reported body temperature and formed on a pre-study, showing that the sleeping body temperature was more than twice between the controls relative to individuals with inter-depression.”
However, it is not clear that poor body temperature regulation is a symptom of depression or conversely, researchers said that people with overall depression had changed their natural immune-based response system.
This means that while other people go through natural temperature cycles throughout the day and over time, there were no people who experience depression, and according to the study, found it difficult to self-cool their body.
This can be a method for non-pharmacical treatment.
“The irony is that to heat people can actually be to reduce body temperature, which lasts for people directly to the people directly through a snow bath,” said in a news release by lead author Ashley Mason. “What are we that we can track the body temperature of people with depression well for time?”
Mason said that there is an existing small body of research that suggests that people can be triggered to self-cool the body by putting people in a hot tub or sauna, which can cause them to sweat. If thermoregulation is a symptom of depression, as the OURA ring study shows, temperature treatment can be an effective way to treat depression.
“For our knowledge, this is the biggest study to check the relationship between body temperature to date-or evaluated using symptoms of depressiveness in self-report methods and wearable sensors-and geographically widespread samples,” Mason said. “Given the climbing rates of depression in the United States, we are excited by the possibilities of a new avenue of treatment.”
Increasing popularity of fitness trackers can also help more people identify more people symptoms.
According to the Pew Research Center, in 2020, one in about five adults wore a fitness tracker, either as a band or smartwatch.
OURA, which develops the OURA ring, reports, more than 1 million people use their ring to track their sleep, blood oxygen levels, heart rate during workouts and their levels of stress.
Many Americans also support companies using fitness trackers for medical research, Pew Research Center found.
About 40% of adults in the US said they would support the data being used from their fitness trackers if it was being used for heart disease research, for example.
With the use of fitness trackers and large -scale research studies that analyze data, people from all over the world may be able to play a role in solving the mysteries of medicine.
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