Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
September 30, 2021 02:29 pm

Apple Watch flags multiple types of irregular heartbeats, study shows




Apple Watch Series 3
Apple Watch | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge



People who get irregular pulse notifications on an Apple Watch but don’t have atrial fibrillation — the condition the feature focuses on detecting — could still have another type of problem with their heartbeat, according to a new study.


The findings show that even if someone with a concerning alert from their Apple Watch doesn’t get an atrial fibrillation diagnosis, they may not be in the clear, says study author Marco Perez, the director of the Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center. “Even if you didn’t find atrial fibrillation, we were finding a lot of people who had something else that probably needed some clinical attention,” he says.


The analysis, published in the journal Circulation, was done using...



Continue reading…




Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/30/22702151/apple-watch-heartbeat-irregular-pulse-afib

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

The Verge

The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011

More About this Source Visit The Verge