Medical Xpress April 19, 2022
Fitness trackers can tell you how well you’re sleeping, how fast you’re walking and, of course, how many steps you’ve taken.
But during the pandemic, researchers have also investigated the ability of smart watches to help detect COVID-19 or provide data on recovery.
The latest study uses several measures of heart rate data to help track the progression of symptoms in someone who has the coronavirus and to show how sick that person becomes while ill.
In the study, fitness trackers detected that COVID-19 dampened biological timekeeping signals, said co-author Daniel Forger, a mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. The researchers also found signs of changes in how a person’s heart rate responds to activity, altered...
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