MobiHealth News September 29, 2021
The most common arrhythmias detected were premature atrial contractions, premature ventricular contractions, atrial tachycardia and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia.
New findings from the Apple Heart Study indicate that Apple Watches can identify irregular heartbeats other than atrial fibrillation arrhythmias.
Funded by Apple and conducted by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine, the study has been ongoing since 2017. It has enrolled 419,297 Apple Watch and iPhone owners across the U.S. to study the company’s irregular heart rate-detecting algorithm.
Previous results from the study showed Apple Watch’s irregular pulse detection algorithm successfully detects atrial fibrillation in 84% of people who receive a notification. The new investigation, published this week in the American Heart Association’s Circulation Journal, sought to find the...
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