Futurity April 21, 2022
If you become ill with COVID-19, your smartwatch can track the progression of your symptoms, and could even show how sick you become.
That’s according to a new study that examined the effects of COVID-19 with six factors derived from heart rate data.
The same method could be used to detect other diseases such as influenza, and the researchers say the approach could be used to track disease at home or when medical resources are scarce, such as during a pandemic or in developing countries.
Following University of Michigan students and medical interns throughout the country, researchers discovered new signals embedded in heart rate indicating when individuals were infected with COVID and how sick they became.
The researchers found that...
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