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Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 15 2017, @09:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the insurance-companies-make-plans dept.

takyon writes:

A study suggests that the Apple Watch could be used to detect hypertension and sleep apnea in users:

A new study out from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests wearables like the Apple Watch, Fitbit and others are able to accurately detect common but serious conditions like hypertension and sleep apnea.

Cardiogram and UCSF previously demonstrated the ability for the Apple Watch to detect abnormal heart rhythm with a 97 percent accuracy. This new study shows the Watch can detect sleep apnea with a 90 percent accuracy and hypertension with an 82 percent accuracy.

Sleep apnea affects an estimated 22 million adults in the U.S., with another 80 percent of cases of moderate and severe obstructive sleep apnea undiagnosed, according to the American Sleep Apnea Association. This is a serious condition where the person affected stops breathing in their sleep and can lead to death.

Another 75 million American adults have high blood pressure (hypertension), according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), putting them at risk for heart disease and stroke, the top causes of death in the United States.

Cardiovascular Risk Stratification Using Off-the-Shelf Wearables and a Multi-Task Deep Learning Algorithm (DOI unknown)

Previously: Apple's Watch Can Detect an Abnormal Heart Rhythm With 97% Accuracy, UCSF Study Says

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:49PM (#597430)

    I had undiagnosed severe sleep apnea for over ten years. One of the most common symptoms is drowsiness while driving, and I never had that. So I figured the other symptoms were just a genetic fluke, a need for more sleep than most people but nothing more. If you have sleep apnea, you won't remember the pauses in your breathing while you sleep.

    Adjusting to sleeping with the machine and mask was a real pain in the neck, it took over a month before I could manage it all night. But the difference in sleep quality and moods was huge. I used to have zero concentration and a nasty temper past seven PM, now I can stay up until ten or eleven without thinking or acting any differently than I did twelve hours earlier.