They don’t fall and hurt themselves because they recognize the feeling isn’t normal and lay back down, and then they’re just bedridden.” How does the Stat wearable help? Stat Health They cope with the feeling, then faint and hurt themselves, whereas the younger population, they don’t actually pass out that frequently. “We actually think of the elderly population separately because their main issue is they do pass out. “You wouldn’t expect a 20- to 40-year-old female to have these issues, but Long COVID disproportionately affects that group,” Lee said. You may think the symptoms mostly affect older people, but it’s far more widespread than that, according to Lee. It has to practice combating gravity,” Lee said. “But the longer they lay down, the worse it is because your body needs to practice. Stat Health’s data indicates these symptoms prevent more than 80% of sufferers from leaving the house for at least two days a week, and almost 20% cannot even get out of bed for at least one day a week, for fear of fainting when out and about. The severe, debilitating dizziness and fainting described by Lee are symptoms of illnesses including Long COVID, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), and other syndromes that are affected simply by the act of standing up.
It varies so much from day to day due to so many factors, like how well they slept and how hot it is.” It gets worse and worse because their body isn’t adapting over time, and some people become bedridden. “Their autonomic system isn’t working, so when they stand up, it’s not regulating correctly, and they just can’t stay up. “These people are very different,” he continued. We stand up and stabilize for 5 seconds, and that’s it,” Lee said, confirming what most of us feel every now and then. The old, the young, and Long Covid sufferers A Stat prototype next to a Bose Sleepbud Stat Health We’ve probably all experienced the brief light-headedness after getting up too quickly caused by this, but while we recover quickly as our body does its work, others do not, and the symptoms the Stat is tracking are much more serious and long-lasting. The cause can be traced to the body not automatically contracting blood vessels in the legs, resulting in insufficient amounts of blood being sent back to the heart, whose job it is to pump it around the body to counter gravity’s effect. What exactly is the Stat wearable? It’s a tiny wearable that fits in the upper ear - so it can be worn with other in-ear or over-ear wearables - and uses an infrared optical sensor to measure blood flow, which helps the wearer understand bouts of dizziness, fainting, headaches, and fatigue that occur right after standing up. This bright orange phone has a pop-out camera unlike anything I’ve seen before
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