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Study: Apple Watch can detect heart conditions.

  Muhammad Zeeshan

According to a latest research by the University of California, San Francisco, fitness trackers can help diagnose potentially fatal heart arrhythmias. Most of us make use of fitness trackers as motivational tools that would help you stay on the move and to monitor our progress. What about the idea if a sensor-packed Apple Watch or Fitbit would help you diagnose a fatal heart disease? Sounds great!

Study: Apple Watch can detect heart conditions.

Study: Apple Watch can detect heart conditions.

Atrial fibrillation is a serious heart arrhythmia linked with a higher risk of heart failure and stroke. Patients can experience heart palpitations and fatigue, it is generally asymptomatic and thus not easy to diagnose.

Cardiogram and researchers at the University of California, San Francisco undertook a study that helped them discover something amazing. They took the Apple Watch and Cardiogram’s algorithm in order to collect heart rate and electrocardiogram information from over 6000 people to find out if the Apple Watch’s sensors can make out between a normal heart rhythm and atrial fibrillation (AF). It seems that it can.

While the results of the study were encouraging, it doesn’t imply people should just trust their apps and wearablesand use them as a tool to diagnose health conditions. Yet it is an interesting finding that helps us have an idea how gadgets can work as more effective tools and how they may evolve with time to provide added benefits.

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