The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) has announced a research collaboration with ŌURA to study how continuous wearable health data can support preventive healthcare initiatives.

• Research focus: The programme will examine continuous health data to better understand risk factors linked to conditions such as obesity, prediabetes, cardiovascular disease, and maternal health risks, with an initial focus on women’s health and cardiometabolic risk.
• Health approach: The initiative supports a shift towards preventive, data-driven healthcare, aiming to enable earlier identification of health risks and more proactive intervention.
• Data integration: The collaboration combines Abu Dhabi’s longitudinal public health data with real-time insights from wearable devices to support population-level health research.

This summary is based on a news article issued by BioSpectrum Asia.

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