A smart bra for better heart health | Alicia Chong Rodriguez

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

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 7 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	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.2	This is Ted Health.
0:08.2	I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Unger-Lighter.
0:13.3	In recent years, it seems like wearable health technology has really made its way into
0:17.7	every aspect of our lives.
0:19.7	Feels like everyone I know has a smartwatch or a fitness tracker.
0:23.3	In her Ted Monterey 2021 talk, Health Care Technology entrepreneur Alicia Chang-Read-Rigez,
0:29.9	introduces us to a new idea.
0:32.1	A smart bra that collects data on heart rate and rhythm, temperature, and even breathing.
0:38.6	Hear how this undergarment not only tracks symptoms, but could be turned into an actual
0:43.7	life saver while closing the data gaps on women's health.
0:47.7	Hey, it's Adam Graham.
0:50.9	The new season of my Ted Podcast's Work Life is out now.
0:54.5	The past few years have been full of changes to how we work.
0:57.6	There's so much more we can rethink about our jobs.
1:00.6	Join me as I dive into the science of making work not suck.
1:04.6	This season, we'll explore how to fix your meetings, bust bureaucracy, and make the
1:08.9	most out of your breaks and vacations.
1:11.6	Listen to Work Life with Adam Grant wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:17.4	I am proudly named Alicia after my grandma.
1:20.4	She dedicated her life to women's health as an obstetrician.
1:23.9	In a time when women were rarely allowed to obtain medical degrees, we lost her to a
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