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Electronic Activity Recording in Cardiovascular Disease

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Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics

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Electronic activity recording is a noninvasive technique to monitor human movements without direct input from the subject or the need for an observer. One of its main advantages is the ability to monitor persons for long periods of time and in the free-living state. Actigraphy, the main form of activity monitoring, is in commercial use. Actigraphs are small technologically mature devices that perform well in everyday use. Actigraphy is extensively used in psychology and sleep research (1) and is increasingly used in cardiovascular disease research. Although there exist guidelines for its use in sleep research (2–4), there are no standards for its use in cardiovascular-related diseases. The main uses for actigraphy at this time are to estimate the duration and quality of sleep, to determine the extent of daytime activity, and to study circadian cycles of humans.

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Mansoor, G.A. (2007). Electronic Activity Recording in Cardiovascular Disease. In: White, W.B. (eds) Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics. Clinical Hypertension and Vascular Diseases. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-978-3_3

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