Over the course of a healthy full-term pregnancy, even if you are getting all of the recommended care, you are still only getting an hour of two total from your OB (or any OB). By monitoring what happens between those visits and across pregnancy in a first of it's kind longitudinal study, we were able to identify a potential digital biomarker for prematurity that could offer a critical early warning and in doing so, create opportunity to intervene and improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
Big Data, Data Science, Health, Inequality, Medical research, Pregnancy "Emily Capodilupo is the Senior Vice President of Research, Algorithms, and Data at WHOOP, Inc., where she leads all efforts around creating algorithms to optimize human performance using physiological data. In this capacity, Emily oversees research efforts which have produced novel findings around predicting risk for COVID-19 prior to symptom onset, identifying differences in daily vital sign patterns between women who have term and preterm pregnancies, and the relationship between long-term sleep patterns and mental health. Emily is passionate about closing the gap in understanding women’s health, an area that has long been under-funded and under-investigated by traditional academic research, and working toward a world in which we all have access to actionable data that enables health span elongating decision making.
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