World Heart Day is celebrated annually on September 29 and was established by the World Heart Federation in 1999 to raise awareness of heart health around the world and to call for action to prevent heart disease. The theme of this year's World Heart Day is "Hearts and Actions".
As the "engine" of the human body, the health status of the heart is directly related to our quality of life and longevity. So how can we protect our heart health in our daily lives?
Many people have experienced staying up late at night or having insomnia, and during the day they feel groggy and sluggish. In addition, it is often accompanied by heart palpitations and other heart discomforts, which is actually a warning from the heart. The Expert Consensus on Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Diseases clearly points out that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is closely related to a variety of cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, and heart failure.
So actually, by learning about sleep, you can learn more about the heart. The most effective way to know about sleep is to monitor your sleep. The current primary method of sleep monitoring is the use of polysomnography (PSG). However, due to the small number of PSG monitoring beds, the complex monitoring process, and the impact of electrode patches on the normal sleep of patients, it is difficult to achieve popularization.
There is an urgent need for an accurate and convenient sleep monitoring diagnostic product. As the earliest representative of China to pay attention to sleep health monitoring, Qinglei has innovatively applied millimeter-wave radar + artificial intelligence technology to the medical and health fields. Qinglei Technology is a Tsinghua University scientific and technological achievements transformation enterprise, a national high-tech enterprise, and a specialized and special new enterprise in Beijing, and has obtained 20 invention patents and 2 medical device registration certificates. At present, the sleep monitoring and diagnostic products developed by Qinglei have been used in more than 100 hospitals across the country.
In terms of accuracy, a paper published in clinical cooperation between Qinglei and Shanghai Sixth Hospital shows that "in the diagnosis of sleep-disordered breathing diseases, Qinglei sleep apnea monitoring system shows high consistency with the gold standard PSG. "In terms of convenience, millimeter-wave radar non-contact monitoring will not affect the normal sleep of patients. The next day, AI automatically generates a medical-grade diagnostic report.
Li Gang, chief scientist of Qinglei Technology and professor at Tsinghua University, also said at the 20th China Heart Congress: "The millimeter-wave radar equipment installed at the head of the bed emits electromagnetic waves to monitor the patient's breathing, heartbeat, blood oxygen and other vital sign data, and analyzes the patient's sleep disorder, which can find the potential risk of heart problems to a certain extent." This innovative perspective was also widely recognized by the experts and doctors attending the meeting.
In the future, Qinglei will continue to deepen cross-cooperation between medical and engineering and carry out clinical research and real-world research with medical experts. Through the research and development of more accurate and convenient sleep monitoring products, while meeting the needs of clinical diagnosis of sleep, we will promote the personalized and intelligent development of the diagnosis and management of sleep-related diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, and mental stress diseases.