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Wearable Fitness Trackers May Interfere With Cardiac Devices

Fran Lowry February 23, 2023 Wearable electronic devices such as smart watches, worn by consumers to monitor their health, could interfere with the correct working of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), posing serious health risks to these patients. Researchers at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, found that certain fitness trackers, such as smart watches,...

Wearable fitness trackers/step counters help the overweight/obese to shed the pounds: study
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Wearable fitness trackers/step counters help the overweight/obese to shed the pounds: study

by  British Medical Journal Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wearable fitness trackers and step counters help people who are overweight/obese and/or who have weight-related health conditions to shed the pounds, finds a pooled data analysis of the existing evidence, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. More than 1.9 billion adults around the world are overweight...