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Over 2,000 Participants Received Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification in Apple Watch Study
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Nobody really cares about your health information. Plus, it's anonymized. For life insurance purposes they do their own exam.
All a privacy statement does is lay-out what a company is going to do with your data. It doesn't actually mean they will keep it private.
The point is Apple demands you use an iPhone. A Fitbit is about $100 and works with any phone. Other devices also work with any phone.
I think you missed the "Apple purposely slows down older iPhones to force people to buy new ones" joke there...
You've already received several good answers, but I was one of the false positives. After I received an alert overnight, I spoke to a doctor. They sent me a patch that I wore for a week and then mailed back to them (postage-paid envelope). After they analyzed it, I spoke to another doctor who said that I did not have any abnormalities during that week. I have some minor ECG changes frequently seen in endurance athletes (36 marathons), including a resting HR in the 40's, and she said that they were excited to have my data in the study to try to reduce false positives in athletes. (She really was very upbeat!)
Your (athletic) resting heart rate mimics the Ventricular heart rate seen in atrial fibrillation. Good that they followed up and cleared the matter
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Dr. Jordan Safirstein, an interventional cardiologist at Morristown Medical Center, said the result was “amazing,” not because of the results, but because researchers were able to recruit a staggering 419,000 patients in a very short period of time, and follow up on them only with telemedicine.
“It’s a lovely demonstration of how we can enroll patients completely virtually, which I think is a huge extension for us in terms of patient engagement and enrollment,” Safirstein said.
https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/16/acc-apple-watch-study/
“It’s a lovely demonstration of how we can enroll patients completely virtually, which I think is a huge extension for us in terms of patient engagement and enrollment,” Safirstein said.
https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/16/acc-apple-watch-study/
Good question, but more specifically: where these registrations meaningfull? (As in: do they need treatment?) If not, nice gimmic. Guidelines still tell us, screening is not recommended, something to do with yield and price. With the presented yield Apple sells 200 watches for a single detection. But how many to save (or improve) a life? The Apple (financial) part I get, my patients (at risk) probably will not fit the AppleWatch/heartstudy profile.
[doublepost=1552940634][/doublepost]You might find reading the linked Stanford Medicine article useful.
There is no definite cure, but rather "workarounds" such as an ablation. Ablations can be quite effective, but it's not a 100% guarantee for all patients. Also they may need to be adjusted every several years. The drugs out there do help in the short term with regular usage, but can cause serious conditions when taken for long periods of time.
