Mateusz Soliński and Vanessa Pope presented the European Society for Cardiology’s AI & Digital Summit 2025 in Berlin.
Vanessa presented a Digital Health poster titled “Music-listening exposes gender differences in blood pressure reaction.” Vanessa’s analysis of 116 people’s response to music found that differences not apparent between men and women’s blood pressure (BP) at rest became apparent during music. Men’s systolic BP was significantly higher than women’s during music in both high and normal baseline BP groups, but not during baseline. Women with high BP at baseline had the lowest BP response to music.
Mateusz spoke about the relationship between music and physiological change points during a moderated e-poster session on “Augmented reality, virtual reality and voice, sound and facial analysis.” Mateusz’ research “Linking cardiovascular and musical change points for personalised music-based cardiovascular interventions” (Solinski, Pope, Lambiase and Chew) found that baseline autonomic balance altered which music features contributed most to physiological change. Mateusz also presented a second e-poster about the OpenPPG mobile application titled: “Design of an open research platform for smartphone-based photoplethysmography acquisition with real-time signal quality control and feature extraction” (Solinski, Basza, Pietyra and Szkwyra).
