Americans With Heart Disease Less Likely to Use Wearable Devices

MedPage Today June 9, 2023
Maja Clasen

— CVD patients may benefit from the devices, but use is lower than the general population

Fewer Americans with or at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) used a wearable health monitoring device than the general population, according to a nationally representative sample using 2019-2020 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data.

Only 18% of adults with CVD and 26% of those at risk for CVD reported using a wearable device to monitor their health and overall activity, compared with 29% of the general population, found Rohan Khera, MD, MS, of the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues.

Of those with CVD who owned one of these devices, only 38% used it every day. Meanwhile, nearly half...

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