Feasibility of Remote Intensive Monitoring: A Novel Approach to Reduce Black Postpartum Maternal Cardiovascular Complications.

Introduction: Approximately 53% of maternal mortality occurs in the postpartum period, a time with little monitoring and health surveillance. The objective of this study was to test the feasibility, usability, appropriateness, and acceptability of remote low-burden physiologic monitoring of Black postpartum women, using a novel soft wearable patch and home vital sign monitoring for the first 4 weeks postpartum.

Methods: A prospective longitudinal cohort feasibility study of 20 Black postpartum women was conducted using home monitoring equipment and a wearable patch with physiologic sensors measuring temperature, pulse oximetry, blood pressure, electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, and respiration twice daily during the first 4 weeks postpartum.

Discovery of Innate Immune Response mRNAs That Are Impacted by Structure-Specific Oral Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan Consumption.

The study of nutritional compounds with the potential to train the innate immune response has implications for human health. The objective of the current study was to discover by what means 6 weeks of oral baker's yeast beta glucan (BYBG) supplementation altered the mRNA expression of genes that reflect innate immune training in the absence of a physical stressor. Nineteen adults were randomly assigned to either a Wellmune BYBG or Placebo for 6 weeks.

Oral Spore-Based Probiotic Supplementation Alters Post-Prandial Expression of mRNA Associated with Gastrointestinal Health.

: Unregulated post-prandial dietary endotoxemia may accumulate over time and underlie the development of chronic disease (e.g., leaky gut, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.

Automated Field of Interest Determination for Quantitative Ultrasound Analyses of Cervical Tissues: Toward Real-time Clinical Translation in Spontaneous Preterm Birth Risk Assessment.

Objective: Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) analysis of the human cervix is valuable for predicting spontaneous preterm birth risk. However, this approach currently requires an offline processing step wherein a medically trained analyst manually draws a free-hand field of interest (Manual FOI) for QUS computation. This offline step hinders the clinical adoption of QUS.