Forbes December 9, 2019
Can the Apple Watch accurately detect atrial fibrillation?
When I first heard that scientists were conducting a study to answer this question, I was deeply skeptical. A simple wrist device detecting heart arrhythmias? This seemed too simplistic to be possible.
But a new study, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, lays out some pretty compelling evidence that the Apple watch can do just that.
Atrial fibrillation (or atrial flutter) is a type of irregular heartbeat that is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in the U.S., affecting some 6 million people a year. The NEJM article estimates that the lifetime risk for “a-fib” might be as high as 1 in 3. Atrial fibrillation isn’t necessarily a problem on...
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