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According to Statista, In 2019, 161.5 people died from a heart attack for every 100,000 inhabitants.
On average, 126.2 women per 100,000 of them died from a heart attack during 2019.
According to information from Statista, There were more than 8 million deaths from ischemic heart disease in the world in 2013.
A new app being developed by a Spanish scientist named Pablo Lamata will help you listen to your heartbeat with the help of your smartphone, turning it into a stethoscope. New technologies are expected to help improve people’s lives, in addition to lowering costs in tests, diagnoses and routine check-ups.
The news was announced in a live on the New Scientist site, where he detailed that the application allows people to record the sounds of their heart by making recordings of quality high enough so that you can hear the beating of your own heart.
The app developed by Lamata is called Echoes. This app transforms your smartphone like a stethoscope, as with the help of its recordings it will provide the first large-scale database of such sound recordings, connected with basic personal information about users.
How does the new app work?
Echoes asks people to sit across a room leaning forward slightly, then place their phone in four different places on their chest to make a short recording. The app’s database currently contains more than 100,000 recordings and will be a valuable resource for heart researchers, said the Spanish researcher.
“We have learned that microphone quality for speech is sufficient for recordings of the heart,” he told New Scientist Live. The results of the first 5,000 users were also published in a recent article.
Pablo Lamata comments that the group’s original intention was simply to get people more interested in learning about their heart health. “So we thought, ‘How about we start asking medical questions?’” he said.
The sound is converted into a visual display, known as a waveform, so users can see and hear their heart sounds. At the moment, it is only available for iPhone, due to the high quality of its microphones.
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