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Apple Watch Can Accurately Assess Frailty, Finds Stanford Study
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Frailty was defined as walking < 300 m (984 feet) in 6 minutes. A person's inability to do that could be caused by many factors, including poor respiration, arthritis, and so on. Still, an interesting example about how wearables can gather data that gauge performance and detect declines.
I'm waiting for Apple to come up with a metric that measures my frailty for falling for new tech from them.
I'm waiting for Apple to come up with a metric that measures my frailty for falling for new tech from them.
It can also be caused by your dogs stopping every 5 feet to sniff something on the side of the road!
The study was specific to the cardiovascular disease. 109 male and 1 female VA patients.
Patients underwent a total of 101 procedures. There were 59 peripheral arterial procedures (18 open bypass and/or endarterectomies and 41 endovascular procedures). There were 42 cardiac procedures (28 CABG/AVRs, 6 TAVRs, 5 PCIs and 3 MVRs).
Itās not as easy as it seems. To make a Facebook account or whatever app, Quora, Reddit, and you know what I mean. You have to enter your stuff to make an account. Such as your Email Address or Phone Number. The name doesn't really matter because you can use a random thing. And then of course Apple automatically autofills a safe and strong password. Once they get your Email Address, they have it all. You might want to rethink a little bit of that.
Iām waiting for the day that the Apple Watch can track how fast you run. And Steps Per Minute arenāt helping at all.
Speaking of that, I actually just took my Chihuahua for a walk and she did the exact same thing.
The Sleep Tracking Functionality is perfectly fine. The only thing that would be cool is to where it can track your sleep stages and if you snore.
The information was in the study that was linked. I have heart failure and was actually researching the 6 minute walk diagnostic today before I saw it here. It's too bad the app isn't available for non-study participants.
Did YOU read the article?
āConducted by Stanford University researchers and funded by Apple, ...ā
Clearly this is to what the commenter was referring. It is quite common to call into question the integrity of a study about a product which is also funded by the producer of said product.
You must be supernatural, because I can't tell the outside temperature by looking out the window. Nor can I get a forecast of the rest of the day, much less the week.
So maybe the window is good enough for you, but for those of us who are mere mortals, we'll continue to glance at the weather on our devices.
How is it even possible to tell the temperature but looking out the window?
I think the funding was the use of the Apple equipment and the salary of an intern.
It makes sense that subjects were recruited from an at-risk population who were scheduled for these procedures. Most of the data were collected post-procedure, but the sample size and study length were too small to do subgroup analysis or determine if these metrics could predict surgical outcome. Still, the results are interesting.
Notably, 84% of the patients were able to complete the full study, which is quite good for people who are less likely to be technically adept. As the capabilities of wearables increase, we'll see more scenarios where remote/self monitoring can detect problems that can be treated without re-admission.
If there is any malfeasance or funny business please feel free to bring it to the surface. If not donāt imply or speculate there is anything more going onā¦.
My wife and I both have Apple watches and are 80+
The only downside is to make sure they get charged daily
While we have not used it, the idea that if we fell and were non-responsive would start a call to 911 is comforting.
The only downside is to make sure they get charged daily
While we have not used it, the idea that if we fell and were non-responsive would start a call to 911 is comforting.
How does it compare to the current gold standard of assessing frailty? Without that information this report is meaningless. The question is always ācompared to what?ā
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Apple Watch is the best watch out there hands down!
You realize that you, as the USER, have FULL control over the notification setup, right? Yah, thought so. š¤£