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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
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 15 2017, @10:17AM (4 children)
From Gay sex and long phallic throat obstructions. If you are from San Francisco and have a thousand bucks to drop on a status symbol, then do it -- your life could depend on it.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 15 2017, @10:21AM (3 children)
Apple Watch Series 3 only costs $329 at Kohl's!
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 15 2017, @11:46AM (1 child)
Anyone who wants a (much) more expensive Apple Watch Series 3, please let me know. Based on the prices... err, the price that you want I mean, I should be able to arrange something.
Really, even at a piece of $100,000; it will be a bit harder but I'm confident I'll manage. Come on now, can you imagine how justifiable smug can you be knowing you paid for your Apple Watch a 5-or-more-digits sum and all the others think the watch worth some small hundreds?
Just thinkdifferently!
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:23PM
Better tap into two markets at the same time: Sell homoeopathic Apple products. Get an Apple product, get it in contact with water, then make a D100 of that Apple-informed water to improve its effect, and then you can sell it for $100 per milliliter, as cure to lacking self-esteem. :-)
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 15 2017, @04:45PM
You don't want that. That's the cheap one. After one round of golf it'll be scratched. It'll look HORRIBLE. That's a polite word for it. You want the Edition, nothing scratches it except diamonds. So you gotta be careful around diamonds.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @10:21AM (1 child)
Stop trying to impose your idea of human normal onto me, Herbert!
"Pulse is 242, blood pressure is practically nonexistent, assuming you call that green stuff in your veins blood."
"The readings are perfectly normal for me, Doctor."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @10:34AM
Fat shaming is the real disease here.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:16PM
Another reason not to get it. Not that I'm against detecting health issues, but I much prefer if my medical data stays between me and my doctor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:49PM
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.