Application of wearable devices for monitoring cardiometabolic dysfunction under the exposome paradigm

Abstract

Environmental factors, including chemical/physical pollutants, as well as lifestyle and psychological factors, contribute greatly to the pathways leading to cardiometabolic diseases with a heavy disease burden and economic loss. The concept of exposomes provides a novel paradigm for combining all exposure characteristics to evaluate disease risk. A solution‐like exposome requires technological support to provide continuous data to monitor vital signs and detect abnormal fluctuations. Wearable devices allow people to conveniently monitor signals during their daily routines. These new technologies empower users to more actively prevent and manage cardiometabolic disease by reviewing risk factors of the disease, especially lifestyle factors, such as sleeping time, screen time, and mental health condition. Devices with multiple sensors can monitor electrocardiography data, oxygen saturation, intraocular pressure, respiratory rate, and heart rate to enhance the exposome study and provide precise suggestions for disease prevention and management.

Association between Air Pollution and Lipid Profiles

“…This type of exposure misclassification is typically non-differential and can result in an underestimation of the effects of air pollution [37]. Wearable devices provide a means of accurately measuring exposure for small, repeated-measurement studies [44]. Calculating precise levels of air pollution exposure for large sample sizes of study participants remains challenging.…”