“Cardea SOLO ECG was chosen for this study because using it means that you collect and own all the data. For clinical researchers, this is essential, as it enables us to transform and use the data as we need. Cardea SOLO’s ease of use and the quality of the data are very important, and we’ve also had excellent customer service from Cardiac Insight.”

“Our pilot study was designed to look at how people respond to different kinds of stressors in their day-to-day lives, as opposed to those which might occur in a laboratory setting. Laboratory stressors differ from real-life stressors in terms of their variety, severity, and duration. The goal of this study was to analyze exported raw ECG data to examine Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as a measure of stress reactivity and dysregulated responses to environmental stress.”

"Accurate measures of HRV are important because we know that lower HRV stress reactivity is associated with depression, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. In our pilot study, over 30 women wore the Cardea SOLO ECG Sensor for one week and answered surveys about stressful events they experienced while wearing the Cardea SOLO monitor"

“Study subjects find the single-use Cardea SOLO Sensor easy to apply and use, which translates into great compliance. We had previously tried other kinds of monitors with chest straps, and because they were very uncomfortable, compliance was not optimal. We need to have subjects wear monitors for multiple days, so comfort is an important issue. Cardea SOLO is much less obtrusive and we achieve longer wear time – the longer wear time is a huge benefit. If we were able to obtain ECG data for only 24 or 48 hours, we might not have been able to capture enough stressful events. Over the course of a week, however, everyone reported at least one stressful moment.”