By Nicole Wetsman Mar 2, 2022, 4:19pm EST Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge One promised benefit of the Apple Watch is early detection of a heart condition called atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heart rhythm. But most people who wear the watch are in a demographic that wouldn’t actually be able to do much...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at Stanford University has found that the Apple Watch in association with an iPhone can be used to monitor frailty in cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients. The project group, which was funded by Apple, has posted a paper describing experiments they conducted...
By MARIO AGUILAR ADOBE Apple’s quest to put a smartwatch on every wrist continues with its latest health research: a new study showing the Apple Watch can be used to monitor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at Apple, working with specialists who treat Parkinson’s, designed a system that uses the Apple Watch to detect the motor...
Starting today, the ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4 marks the first direct-to-consumer product that enables customers to take an electrocardiogram right from their wrist, capturing heart rhythm in a moment when they experience symptoms like a rapid or skipped heart beat and helping to provide critical data to physicians. The irregular rhythm notification...
Cardiogram is an app that detects heart rate to predict and prevent heart disease Now research has found it can detect sleep apnea with 90 percent accuracy and hypertension with 82 percent accuracy By wearing the Apple Watch, the app can continuously screen the body’s heart rate and alert a patient of abnormalities This will cut...
