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Wearable and Implantable Technologies for Cardiovascular Health Informatics

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Though modern medical technologies have been progressed significantly in this century, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide.

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  1. Joint Research Center for Biomedical Engineering (JCBME), Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Yali Zheng, Carmen C. Y. Poon & Yuan Ting Zhang

  2. Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Carmen C. Y. Poon

  3. Key Laboratory for Health Informatics of Chinese Academy of Science (HICAS), Shenzhen, China

    Yuan Ting Zhang

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Zheng, Y., Poon, C. .Y., Zhang, Y.T. (2013). Wearable and Implantable Technologies for Cardiovascular Health Informatics. In: Furht, B., Agarwal, A. (eds) Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8495-0_22

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