76-Year-Old Gaston D'Aquino Latest to Say Apple Watch Saved His Life

[pika2000]

Still won’t change the naysayers claiming that it’s a failure, Tim Cook is a crook, and Apple is doomed.
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And google watch is coming out. We will see apple’s market dominance crumble if google’s success with Voice and AI are repeated

Not sure which cave you were under on considering Android Wear was out before Apple Watch, and they went nowhere since Google themselves don’t know what they want with it.

 

[garoto]

I am no doctor, but isn't your heart rate dependant upon your weight? I thought the maximum heart rate decreases if you lose weight. Why not check for the users weight in this page itself, otherwise wouldn't there be a lot of false alarms??

The user configures what’s considered “elevated” for him or her. I average st 65bpm rest at 55bpm walk at 90ish and burn a ton of calories at 165bpm. If I’m sitting down and my heart rate is at 100bpm for 10 minutes straight I will get notified. It wouldn’t only be a false alarm if I knew I was watching something on TV that was elevating my heart rate or whatever otherwise it’s likely Genuine.

 

[falainber]

Without proper study this is just an anecdotal evidence and not even very good one at that. Do we know how many false positives AW generates? What if there are hundreds of thousands (or even millions) people getting these alarms? How many of them go to the hospital and get confirmed diagnose? Is the percentage of correct alarms higher than what a random testing of people would produce? Without these numbers all we have is the fact that some AW owners apparently have heart problems but we knew it already, did not we?

 

[truthertech]

You were on point with your rebuttal until you said “...in 18 months...”, at which point you confirmed the OP’s sentiment. Argument fail.

Apple, should, indeed, stop being so greedy.

LOL.

 

[QCassidy352]

LoL
On the more serious note, imagine how many more lives could be saved if the price of Apple Watch was more accessible...

You can get one new for $250 (S1) or the latest one for $330 (S3). And they often go on sale. That’s hardly only for the ultra rich.

 

[truthertech]

Well, that $149 watch is pretty useless without the additional expenditure of the cost of an iPhone. And the $149 is almost certainly a Series 0, which appears to be on the way out (it is ineligible for the current heart study, for instance).

I have a Series 1, and overall I like it - but let's not pretend the price of entry here isn't rather high.

Please stop with the fake news. You can buy it from Walmart and many others for $149.00 Yes, and duh, you need an iPhone but everyone already has a phone and this website is probably 99% iPhone owners. Just the 1%, OK more like 20%, haters who troll on MR who don't have one.
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Why do people (including Tim Cook) use over-priced coffee as a means to justify the cost of a product?

Because the people who whine about the cost of a product are often found to be spending $8 to $10 a day on coffee, so if they simply stopped buying coffee at Starbucks for a month, they could buy a top of the line new watch and bring that rare smile to their faces.

 

[ckhris1613]

Like, love, hate, or loathe Apple, we should all agree that this is an example of what we want technology to be able to do for us.

I sincerely hope other manufacturers work on medical technologies as well.

There is, it has a 3-4 day battery life and its called a fit bit
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How many people have died because their Samsung Gear or Fitbit watches didn’t detect an elevated heart rate?

They’re not medical devices, either.

How many people have died the time it took me to reply to this pointless post?

 

[tele-fragd]

My what a guy, Gaston!

 

[gavroche]

I sleep with my Watch on and a couple times I’ve received an elevated heart rate notification. The only time I’ve received them is in the middle of the night when I’m sleeping.

Hmm... what were you dreaming about?

 

[bbednarz]

There is, it has a 3-4 day battery life and its called a fit bit
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I dont understand this infatuation with 3-4 day battery life. If I was only charging it every 4th day or so there is a much greater risk I would forget to charge it and have it die. Mine easily lasts a full day (with an hour workout using the HR sensor, cellular, and bluetooth playing music). I think I have run it down to 10% before when I wore it into a 3rd day without charging at all. I wear mine pretty much 24/7. Ill charge it either when I shower or when I first get to work in the morning. Battery life is only an issue to people who want to find something about the watch to criticize.

 

[gavroche]

When did he start feeling bad?

When he got the doctors bill.

 

[DeepIn2U]

I am no doctor, but isn't your heart rate dependant upon your weight? I thought the maximum heart rate decreases if you lose weight. Why not check for the users weight in this page itself, otherwise wouldn't there be a lot of false alarms??

You're a fool if you actually believe what you wrote - thank GOD you're not a doctor.

Your heart rate is dependant on:
Heart muscle health and strength
viscosity of your blood (you'd be VERY surprised how many people do not drink enough water and how this affects the blood in their veins),
Heart conditions have a DRASTIC affect here: example angina or growth murmurs for which I've experienced for 2yrs at the age of 13-15yr old. This affected not just track and field performance (passing out top speed mid stride face FIRST into the ground) but also even just walking.
Valves ... if your heart valves do NOT close properly no matter how healthy the rest of your heart is, your weight, how you eat, low cholestrol or blood cholesterol serum ... you're going to be VERY weak in energy, breathe and movement!!

Irratic heart beat ... main focus of this article (or how it occured) will mess you up as well.

NOTE: I've never been overweight in my youth and only this past 6mths eating like a pig daily eating out (Cinnabons, Burgers, fries ... and just pure junk not going to the gym in 3mths)! I've always been very skinny until I was 37yr and I'm 45 in 2wks.

Over the course of 3wks 4mths ago when I was consistently going to the gym yet eating a LOT more calories to gain muscular density (bodybuilding the traditional 80's way) ... sitting down listening to tribal music surfing the next signigicantly bumped my resting heart rate to 141 bpm ... I didn't even feel it until a half second after AppleWatch S2 detected and reported it. it's like my heart registered a tap dance in my chest causing a sinking feeling my my throat for a moment and it's very scary!

The watch looks at your resting heart rate ... comparing slow movement, brisk movement, elevation changes between them as well as your full sleeping heart rate with barely any movement over the course of a few weeks. i know this for a fact as I've not had an Apple Watch for 2mths when I sold mine and bought an AW3 just 2wks ago and I've yet to receive any warnings yet ... I know I will in about a week.

A benefit of volunteering to participate in the study. Glad to see it paying some dividends.

Imagine if this study was opened up across the world?!!

Great benefits and I applaud Apple for it. This and the Watch alone has solidified my loyalty to iOS & Watch OS for some time to come. I'm hoping for better competition to really push Apple further. Example I'd love to see a sudden elevation change to sudden stop in movement detected by gyroscope, along with drop in vitals to immediately suggest and dial 911 if not cancelled in 10 seconds: ederly, those with a stroke would seriously benefit from this.

This technology could already save millions of lives a year if it was widespread. And imagine, say, the AW 10.

Most likely this has already prevented many such as myself from having a severe event by taking notice of the condition ... then changing exersize habits, sleeping, breathing (stress reduction / focus), and eating habits.

 

[Naaaaak]

Sounds like he also had a good doctor who was willing to run a test.

I feel like I've had so many garbage doctors who would have done nothing or would have told me "come back if you feel worse" and been unwilling to run a test.

 

[DeepIn2U]

A drop in the bucket compared to how many lives has been ruined due to smartphone addiction.

I somehow see this as a mindless comment.

smartphone addiction?
- like internet addiction on desktop/laptops from the late 80's to the early 90's ... many of the first generation of users that are a part of your belief or the poorly parenting investors complaining and preaching to Apple first to come up with a way to restrict their childrens use of smartphones?! LMAO! This in an age where internet use and learning has replaced: asking parents for difficult questions (relevant educational, and social inadequate), replaced the encyclopedia (remember those), and part of training for so many of today's jobs.

- like Television addiction from the generation which became teens in the late 70's to early 80's and yet even today just about EVERYONE watches movies like candy or binges on netflix TV shows!?!
^ Did anyone not watch "The Cable Guy" movie where the main character was sat in front of the TV which was his perception of a babysitter?

People need to grow a pair, man/woman up and teach their children a sense of responsibility, common sense, and time management. Engage their children and participate in what they're doing. Recall when FaceBook began to get popular and those of us parents cautioned our children not to register and if so rules about: no location, no pictures with location data, no pictures showing street names, monuments, sharing ONLY to friends, marking only true friends you spend real personal in-person time with (without a computer or phone) are as "Friends" anyone else in an "Acquaintence"? (FYI - learn hip-hop track called "Friends" by Whodini ... make your kids listen to it before their 12yrs old).

I did all of this:
A-Team, AirWolf, KnightRider, StreetHawk, Transformers (OG to Gen5 that ended the wars; before the remakes), Thudercats OG, Silverhawks ... still read books, book reports, essays, grounded for months with no Cable (I figured out plugging in the wall, then the cable box, so parents called Rogers cable and disconnected lol; saved them money). Parents got me a computer ... never taught me anything about the internet, I learned it myself. Became a parent and began working in the Technology fields, taught my son.

In short I learned and acted like a father, a parent should!

I don't place blame on Apple or other company if my son uses his smartphone more than he does a computer - it IS his computer until he's using production software.

People love to make excuses for their lack of inability to recognize where their responsibility needs to be done.

PS: if your post was sarcastic I completely missed the /s flag.

 

[dumastudetto]

Awesome story. These are the life experiences that you won’t get with other companies because they don’t care about you or your health. Apple does, and is always motivated to do the best it can for its customers.

 

[scaramoosh]

The NHS would have turned him away and he would be dead now.

 

[page3]

The NHS would have turned him away and he would be dead now.

I was just thinking the same thing!

 

[I7guy]

I somehow see this as a mindless comment.

smartphone addiction?
- like internet addiction on desktop/laptops from the late 80's to the early 90's ... many of the first generation of users that are a part of your belief or the poorly parenting investors complaining and preaching to Apple first to come up with a way to restrict their childrens use of smartphones?! LMAO! This in an age where internet use and learning has replaced: asking parents for difficult questions (relevant educational, and social inadequate), replaced the encyclopedia (remember those), and part of training for so many of today's jobs.

- like Television addiction from the generation which became teens in the late 70's to early 80's and yet even today just about EVERYONE watches movies like candy or binges on netflix TV shows!?!
^ Did anyone not watch "The Cable Guy" movie where the main character was sat in front of the TV which was his perception of a babysitter?

People need to grow a pair, man/woman up and teach their children a sense of responsibility, common sense, and time management. Engage their children and participate in what they're doing. Recall when FaceBook began to get popular and those of us parents cautioned our children not to register and if so rules about: no location, no pictures with location data, no pictures showing street names, monuments, sharing ONLY to friends, marking only true friends you spend real personal in-person time with (without a computer or phone) are as "Friends" anyone else in an "Acquaintence"? (FYI - learn hip-hop track called "Friends" by Whodini ... make your kids listen to it before their 12yrs old).

I did all of this:
A-Team, AirWolf, KnightRider, StreetHawk, Transformers (OG to Gen5 that ended the wars; before the remakes), Thudercats OG, Silverhawks ... still read books, book reports, essays, grounded for months with no Cable (I figured out plugging in the wall, then the cable box, so parents called Rogers cable and disconnected lol; saved them money). Parents got me a computer ... never taught me anything about the internet, I learned it myself. Became a parent and began working in the Technology fields, taught my son.

In short I learned and acted like a father, a parent should!

I don't place blame on Apple or other company if my son uses his smartphone more than he does a computer - it IS his computer until he's using production software.

People love to make excuses for their lack of inability to recognize where their responsibility needs to be done.

PS: if your post was sarcastic I completely missed the /s flag.

I don’t see that post as sarcasm. I see that post as the poster blames Apple for allowing safari to let “addiction “ oriented individuals use Facebook for hours at a time as in “reefer madness”.

You used the words common sense and parenting. Please don’t use those words around here. This is all apple’s fault./s

 

[KevinAPearson]

I had a similar but not as serious event.
I happened to be waiting for my Dad while he was seeing a Doctor, when my watch alerted me to a high heart rate of 161 after sitting down for 10 mins. I admit I thought it must have been a blip as I felt fine; no pounding heart, pain or sweating etc. I didn't realise I could have such a high heart rate without feeling anything.
I obviously didn't want to risk it so I asked a passing nurse who took me for an ECG and some blood tests. My heart rate was jumping from 79 to 155 and everything in between.
As this was a small local hospital they sent me to an ER to get checked out. I was able to show all the data from my Health App which allowed the Doctor's to see a history of my usual heart rates.
I've lost 30 Lbs over the last six months on a low carb diet, so they could see that too. I use a Bluetooth bathroom scale to track my weight on the Health App - Highly recommended.
After another ECG and blood work and seven hours waiting, my heart rate was to down to 110 (it's now back to my usual high 70's to mid 80's) . They said the ECG showed nothing which would indicate a serious problem. Also the blood work came back with no issues.
I'm now manually checking my heart rate more often with my Watch 2, as well as the standard automatic checks and have a follow up appointment in a weeks time.

If I hadn't had an alert from my watch, I wouldn't have know this had happened at all.
If this turns out to be a one-off then great but I now feel a lot safer knowing I'll be warned if it happens again. In that case I would need to have my Doctor look into it more.

 

[I7guy]

I had a similar but not as serious event.
I happened to be waiting for my Dad while he was seeing a Doctor, when my watch alerted me to a high heart rate of 161 after sitting down for 10 mins. I admit I thought it must have been a blip as I felt fine; no pounding heart, pain or sweating etc. I didn't realise I could have such a high heart rate without feeling anything.
I obviously didn't want to risk it so I asked a passing nurse who took me for an ECG and some blood tests. My heart rate was jumping from 79 to 155 and everything in between.
As this was a small local hospital they sent me to an ER to get checked out. I was able to show all the data from my Health App which allowed the Doctor's to see a history of my usual heart rates.
I've lost 30 Lbs over the last six months on a low carb diet, so they could see that too. I use a Bluetooth bathroom scale to track my weight on the Health App - Highly recommended.
After another ECG and blood work and seven hours waiting, my heart rate was to down to 110 (it's now back to my usual high 70's to mid 80's) . They said the ECG showed nothing which would indicate a serious problem. Also the blood work came back with no issues.
I'm now manually checking my heart rate more often with my Watch 2, as well as the standard automatic checks and have a follow up appointment in a weeks time.

If I hadn't had an alert from my watch, I wouldn't have know this had happened at all.
If this turns out to be a one-off then great but I now feel a lot safer knowing I'll be warned if it happens again. In that case I would need to have my Doctor look into it more.

Glad you’re okay. That reminded me of something that happened in the gym. I’ve been an exerciser my life, but go periods without exercising. However I’ve been exercising consistently since October with weights and cardio. And for years I’ve used a chest strap monitor, now I have a Fitbit. My resting heart rate is about 55.

I was warming up (slowly)on the elliptical when I glanced at my Fitbit and my heart rate was in 140s way out of normal for the intensity. I thought my Fitbit was bonkers but the elliptical machine registered a similar beat. Scared me as I thought the worst. I was about to dismount when the heart rate returned to a saner 100 bpm after 15 seconds or so. Within the time frame of this coincidentally I recently had a full physical ekg and blood work and all was well. Hasn’t happened before and hasn’t happened since.

While the Fitbit isn’t as sophisticated as Apple watch, technology gives us useful info to help make better health decisions.

 

[ikir]

AppleWatch reported strange hearth BPM spikes last year for several weeks, I went to the hospital and they confirmed this, in the end it was only super stress but AppleWatch is a life saver really.

 

[Mundhir]

He looks like Uncle Miyagi from the Karate kid movie

 

[Jsameds]

A drop in the bucket compared to how many lives has been ruined due to smartphone addiction.

You must be fun at parties.

 

[Porco]

I think we’re only seeing the beginning of the possible health benefits from wearable tech like the Apple Watch, and it’s brilliant. Coupled with Apple’s better-than-most attitude towards user data and privacy they are in a great position to make the most of this produt range. I hope many more such advancements arrive soon for new Watch models.

 

[Apple blogger]

The message this guy was sent probably included that, I doubt he was sent one sentence like the initial post shows. But its Tim Cook, so everyone just assumes the worst for whatever reason.

Then the article is misleading...