Medscape March 29, 2025
Wearable technologies such as smartwatches are providing physicians with new ways to monitor their patients’ health and detect cardiovascular risk factors. Metrics like daily step totals and average resting heart rate are already being used to predict cardiovascular health. Zhanlin Chen, a medical student at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, however, has developed a new combined metric that could provide a more reliable indicator of heart health.
The findings were presented here at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Session 2025 in Chicago.
“Daily steps are a known predictor of cardiovascular health,” said Chen. “But it is an indirect indicator. It [only] shows how much we move, which we hope translates into predicting outcomes.”
Such indirect data never...
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