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Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

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Re: Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

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Post by jacquesm »

Like with any medical test: if you do more tests you will find more incidence.

The same thing happened with various forms of cancer screening. If we were to test everybody for everything very few people would be found to be 100% and a lot of unnecessary procedures would be the result.

Given the obesity problem this result should not be a surprising finding anyway.

Re: Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

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Post by staticassertion »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #2

Pretty cool. Although its early days yet. I still worry about back doors that would allow the watch to be used as a lie detector surreptitiously.

I'm more concerned with the data being sold/ leaked and it impacting insurance premiums.

Re: Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

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Post by gatherhunterer »

robertlf wrote: post #14

I stopped reading at "funded by Apple Inc."

Most medical studies are not publicly funded[1]. You just dismissed the majority of medical research done in the U.S. in at least the last ten years. There are potential problems with private funding compromising studies but without any specific complaint this is just a baseless dismissal.

1. https://hub.jhu.edu/2015/12/15/industry-funded-clinical-tria...

Re: Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

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Post by eriktrautman »

jacquesm wrote: post #12

Like with any medical test: if you do more tests you will find more incidence. The same thing happened with various forms of cancer screening. If we were to test everybody for everything very few people would be found to be 100% and a lot of unnecessary procedures would be the result. Given the obesity problem this result should not be a surprising finding anyway.

Are you advocating that we shouldn't bother testing instead? I'd imagine that many people would be quite interested in knowing the ways they're not 100% that might actually kill them... like cancer.

Re: Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

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Post by briandear »

robertlf wrote: post #14

I stopped reading at "funded by Apple Inc."

Do you think Apple and Stanford have a reason to falsify their results? Is it a sane, credible reason, based on actual history of those organizations falsifying medical research? Or, is it just an opposition related to malfunctioning tin-foil headgear? Is Stanford not a credible enough institution?

Re: Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

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Post by Zanni »

If I'm reading this right, the Apple Watch was actually more accurate in detecting arterial fibrilation episodes than the ECG patch they used for initial confirmation. The Apple Watch identified 2,000 people. The patch confirmed 33% of those, but then another 51% were confirmed by some undisclosed method.
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