Apple Watch and Fitbit users with heart conditions are more likely to get medical procedures

[Chris Smith]

Since the arrival of the Apple Watch six years ago, we’ve seen countless stories about the wearable saving someone’s life. The smartwatch features various health sensors, the most useful of which is the heart rate sensor that passively monitors the wearer’s pulse. The watch can trigger alerts if the algorithms detect an arrhythmia, or an irregular heart rate, which can push the wearer to seek professional help.

But those anecdotes aren’t enough to objectively measure the usefulness of wearable devices in monitoring certain conditions, so a team of doctors set out to observe patients suffering from atrial fibrillation (AF) and wearing Apple Watch or Fitbit devices that can measure the heart rate. They discovered that the group suffering from this medical condition that used wearables had undergone more medical procedures than the control group. However, smartwatch wearers have not overwhelmed physicians with calls compared to the group of people suffering from the same condition who do not own wearable devices.

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