Samsung announced a few hours ago that it received an important certificate allowing the use of a new health function in the Galaxy Watch. From the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) she received permission to watch automatically alerted the user to an irregular heartbeat. Especially in the elderly, this innovation may play an important role in preventing or speeding up the response to critical heart failure. The function appears in the One UI 5 Watch systemwhich will have a sharp premiere in the watches of the generation Galaxy Watch6.
The certification from the US FDA is a harbinger that perhaps the Korean company will try to get permission in other parts of the world. Hopefully it will happen as soon as possible. Domestic owners of the Galaxy Watch certainly have vivid memories of how long it took, for example, to introduce ECG measurement here. The new function proactively monitors heart rhythm suggestive of atrial fibrillation (AFib). It is a type of arrhythmia that is considered a warning sign of serious cardiovascular problems that can increase the risk of stroke, heart failure and other complications.
Some cases of AFib are asymptomatic or even silent, meaning that it you may have and not know about it. Once activated in the Samsung Health Monitor app, the background function will check for irregular heart rhythm and if a certain number of consecutive readings are irregular, the watch will alert you for possible AFib activity and prompt you to perform an EKG for a more accurate measurement.
Which health metrics do you track on your watch?
Source: GSMA
2023-05-09 08:00:07
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