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The potential of wearable sweat sensors in heart failure management

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Wearable sweat sensors could be used to monitor patients with heart failure, providing a route to personalized and automated patient management in hospitals and at home.

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Fig. 1: Connected sweat-based monitoring and the closed-loop treatment of patients with heart failure.

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N.B. acknowledges a MedLab Fellowship from ETH Zurich and an Early-career Fellowship from Collegium Helveticum, Zurich.

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  1. Institute of Translational Medicine, Department of Health Science and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Noé Brasier

  2. Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, Switzerland

    Noé Brasier

  3. Faculty of Health, Department of Cardiology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

    Ole Frobert

  4. Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Ole Frobert

  5. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

    Ole Frobert

  6. Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

    Ole Frobert

  7. Emergency Department, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Fiorangelo De Ieso

  8. NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    David Meyer

  9. Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Tobias Kowatsch

  10. School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Tobias Kowatsch

  11. Centre for Digital Health Interventions, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Tobias Kowatsch

  12. Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Roozbeh Ghaffari

  13. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Roozbeh Ghaffari

  14. Epicore Biosystems, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA

    Roozbeh Ghaffari

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Brasier, N., Frobert, O., De Ieso, F. et al. The potential of wearable sweat sensors in heart failure management. Nat Electron 7, 182–184 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01136-w

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