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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 ezconnect »

mehrdadn wrote: post #107
aboutruby wrote: post #22

I saw a few posts on Reddit about how the Apple Watch basically saved people's life: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/a40qm5/heading_... https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/9zrdq5/how_an_a... I'm sure there is a lot more. (Also all the people losing weight)

I wish there was a heartbeat-measuring watch with the battery life of a dumb watch. My watch goes like 5 years (I've lost count honestly) on its original battery. I'd love to have something watching out for my health but I just can't see myself moving to a smartwatch that needs recharging every 18 hours when I don't even need the smartness crap...

I bought a 9 usd band that travks heartbeat every minute that last for a week or more before recharging

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

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Post by killjoywashere »

brandonb wrote: post #137
mehrdadn wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a heartbeat-measuring watch with the battery life of a dumb watch. My watch goes like 5 years (I've lost count honestly) on its original battery. I'd love to have something watching out for my health but I just can't see myself moving to a smartwatch that needs recharging every 18 hours when I don't even need the smartness crap...

You might like the Withings Steel HR, which has a traditional mechanical watchface, a heart rate sensor, and about 25 days of battery life: https://www.withings.com/us/en/steel-hr/36rgw/shop?screen=de... Some Garmin and Fitbit models have good battery life — often about a week.

What we need is a Seiko Kinetic with HR.

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

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Post by hatsunearu »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0sv3Kuurhw

Super underrated channel (British humor, anyone)--shows how the Apple Watch's ECG feature can be actually bad for overall health.

edit: though the amount of positive outcomes (the reddit thread) makes me reassess this...

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

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Post by atomical »

brandonb wrote: post #82

I work at a related company (Cardiogram), and there's a surprising amount of signal locked in the humble heart rate sensor -- we've run multiple studies with UCSF showing accurate detection of sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and even diabetes using off-the-shelf heart rate sensors and a deep neural network, DeepHeart: https://blog.cardiogr.am/screening-with-wearables-what-do-th... If you're an engineer or payer rel…

Do you have to do another study each time you release new firmware?

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

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Post by wingworks »

brandonb wrote: post #137
mehrdadn wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a heartbeat-measuring watch with the battery life of a dumb watch. My watch goes like 5 years (I've lost count honestly) on its original battery. I'd love to have something watching out for my health but I just can't see myself moving to a smartwatch that needs recharging every 18 hours when I don't even need the smartness crap...

You might like the Withings Steel HR, which has a traditional mechanical watchface, a heart rate sensor, and about 25 days of battery life: https://www.withings.com/us/en/steel-hr/36rgw/shop?screen=de... Some Garmin and Fitbit models have good battery life — often about a week.

Watch out for the Withings watches, I bought the generation before the HR one and it was rather thick, much thicker than I was expecting, I ended up returning it. I love the style of the Withings watches, but way too thick for me compared to the traditional watches. I'm waiting for the smartwatches to get down in thickness before trying another one.

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

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Post by plexicle »

brandonb wrote: post #115
taspeotis wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They forgot to renew their domain: Domain name: cardiogr.am Registrar: abcdomain (ABCDomain LLC) Status: on hold ... Registered: 2015-03-17 Last modified: 2019-03-17 Expires: 2019-03-17

You got it—I renewed it 40 minutes ago. Bear with us as we get the renewal processed and DNS propagated.

Happy 4 year domain birthday!

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

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Post by eric-hu »

chii wrote: post #102
GuiA wrote: post #99

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The future is your insurance company making you wear a smart watch 24/7 if you don’t want to pay a huge premium. I predict it’s going to be a huge quagmire over the next decade or so.

It would be a huge invasion of privacy for an insurance company to do this - and not only privacy, but the fact that insurance companies can discriminate based on this data means that the healthy don't end up subsidising the unhealthy (which is the whole point of insurance). SO premiums go up regardless, and only the insurance company win in this scenario. Right now, the right choice is to combat this problem before…

> but the fact that insurance companies can discriminate based on this data means that the healthy don't end up subsidising the unhealthy (which is the whole point of insurance).

I agree with your premise about the point of insurance. How is the discussed idea any different than insurance companies giving different rates to older people and denying coverage for pre existing conditions, in terms of discrimination against the non healthy?

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

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Post by windexh8er »

brandonb wrote: post #137
mehrdadn wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a heartbeat-measuring watch with the battery life of a dumb watch. My watch goes like 5 years (I've lost count honestly) on its original battery. I'd love to have something watching out for my health but I just can't see myself moving to a smartwatch that needs recharging every 18 hours when I don't even need the smartness crap...

You might like the Withings Steel HR, which has a traditional mechanical watchface, a heart rate sensor, and about 25 days of battery life: https://www.withings.com/us/en/steel-hr/36rgw/shop?screen=de... Some Garmin and Fitbit models have good battery life — often about a week.

I'm the type of person that loves watches and doesn't like smart watches. Personally I find them to be too much distraction. I'm more of a G-Shock wearing type of user, although I've owned many Garmins over the years for working out, but none enough to wear daily. That was until the Garmin Instinct [0]. You can easily get 10-15 days out of it depending on how much you work out and use the GPS for tracking. I also don't sleep with a watch on, so it's shut off at night. Anyway, point being the Instinct is just enough "smart" yet rugged enough for daily use. One of my favorite watches I've ever owned.

[0] https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/621802#overview

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

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Post by tokyodude »

Waterluvian wrote: post #92

I can see a future where my doctor gives me a wristband to wear for a month then return as a part of each annual checkup. Though maybe it gets even better than that and we just all start wearing watches again. I want that feature but I'm not a watch wearer.

I can see a future where Apple charges your doctor 30% of her fees for access to the heart data in their walled garden

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

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Post by emdowling »

brandonb wrote: post #115
taspeotis wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They forgot to renew their domain: Domain name: cardiogr.am Registrar: abcdomain (ABCDomain LLC) Status: on hold ... Registered: 2015-03-17 Last modified: 2019-03-17 Expires: 2019-03-17

You got it—I renewed it 40 minutes ago. Bear with us as we get the renewal processed and DNS propagated.

Still not resolving in a lot of places, also making your app not work (I’m in the UK).
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