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A smart bra for better heart health | Alicia Chong Rodriguez

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Shoshana Ungerleider, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health, Health & Fitness, How To Be Healthier, Medicine, Fitness

4.01.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Could an everyday clothing item help protect your health? In this quick talk, TED Fellow Alicia Chong Rodriguez introduces us to a smart bra designed to gather real-time data on biomarkers like heartbeat, breath and temperature. Learn how this life-saving gadget could help close the gender gap in cardiovascular research -- and, finally, usher women's health care into the 21st century.



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0:00.0

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0:23.6

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0:35.3

Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Pointer, chair of Women's Health

0:40.0

and Gynecology at the Atria Health Institute in New York City. I'll be talking to top researchers

0:45.4

and clinicians and bringing vital information about midlife women's health directly to you.

0:51.4

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0:55.9

we suffer through it? Listen to decoding women's health with Dr. Elizabeth Pointer wherever you

1:00.9

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1:12.1

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1:18.3

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1:57.6

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2:00.7

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2:01.8

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