npj Digital Medicine (Mar 2020)

Out-of-clinic measurement of sweat chloride using a wearable sensor during low-intensity exercise

  • Dong-Hoon Choi,
  • Grant B. Kitchen,
  • Mark T. Jennings,
  • Garry R. Cutting,
  • Peter C. Searson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-0257-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Abstract Wearable sensors have the potential to enable measurement of sweat chloride outside the clinic. Here we assess the feasibility of mild exercise as an alternative to pilocarpine iontophoresis for sweat generation. The results from this proof-of-concept study suggest that mild exercise could be a feasible approach to obtain reliable measurements of sweat chloride concentration within 20–30 min using a wearable sensor.