A wearable system to monitor the stomach's activity throughout the day

(University of California - San Diego) A team of researchers has developed a wearable, non-invasive system to monitor electrical activity in the stomach over 24 hours--essentially an electrocardiogram but for the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract.Applications include monitoring GI activity for patients outside of a clinical setting, which cuts down costs. Monitoring for longer periods of time also increases the likelihood of capturing abnormal events.Researchers detail their findings in the March 22 issue of Nature's open access journal Scientific Reports.
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