June 10, 2016.
The Withings company is innovating by marketing a scale connected to your smartphone to assess your heart health. Using advanced technology, it will allow you to calculate your pulse wave and check the health of your arteries.
A scale so sensitive it feels your heart beating
What if it was enough to weigh yourself to assess your risk of cardiovascular disease? The company Withings has made the bet and has just launched “Body Cardio”, an innovative bathroom scale which, thanks to a multitude of electrodes installed under the platform, allows you to monitor your heart, from his smartphone which collects data from the scale, while controlling his weight.
” Make your heart stronger “. This is the slogan of this healthy bathroom scale. The latter has the ability to measure your pulse wave, who ” is an essential, most reliable measure for assessing cardiovascular health “, Thus affirms the professor Pierre Boutouyrie, cardiologist and researcher at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris, according to remarks taken again by the site Street89.
This bathroom scale will give you the age of your arteries
The latter indeed conducted a study on 111 people, in order to see the results of this connected scale. ” It seems a miracle but the scale is so sensitive that it records the weight variations linked to the contractions of the heart, and by a trick of engineers, it measures the blood flow in the feet, and calculates the speed by algorithms, based on the age of the users “, Explained the professor during the presentation of this scale to the press.
From the Health Mate application, downloadable on a smartphone, the user can then check his heart health and in particular what Professor Boutouyrie calls ” the age of his arteries “. If this matches your actual age, then there is no need to worry and your heart is healthy. On the other hand, if your pulse wave indicates an older age than yours, you will surely need to act on your lifestyle, improving your diet, resuming physical activity or reducing your alcohol consumption.
Read also: The 8 connected objects that want to revolutionize your health
