MobiHealth News June 25, 2019
Dave MuoioJune

After validating smartphone photoplethysmography against in-clinic ECG, UCSF researchers contextualized heart rate data from nearly 70,000 study participants.
As part of the extensive Health eHeart Study, University of California, San Francisco researchers found smartphone camera-based heart rate measurements often employed by apps to strongly correlate with in-clinic results collected via ECG.

From there, the researchers employed their app-based approach to record the heart rates nearly 70,000 individuals worldwide, and paired these with health and demographics data provided by the study participants. Doing so, they wrote in npj Digital Medicine, has yielded “the largest real-world norms for remotely obtained, real-world [heart rate] according to various strata [that] may help physicians...

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