Do you know what is the normal heart rate for an average healthy adult in a day? The answer is 100,000 times. The frequency of heart beating is actually closely related to health.
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However, the practical application is not limited to this. According to the latest report released by Apple, Apple Watch is checking the health of front-line personnel. To further advance discoveries that improve health at scale, Apple has launched the Investigator Support Program. Through the program, Apple is providing researchers with the Apple Watch device to use the Apple Watch to study the heart in ways never before possible.
Toxicity Study Associated with Childhood Cancer Treatment Using the Apple Watch ECG App
Associate Professor Rachel Conyers and Dr Claudia Toro are senior pediatric oncologists from Melbourne, Australia,
Toxicity in cancer treatment leads to various cardiac arrhythmias, such as the potentially life-threatening long QT syndrome. Long QT syndrome causes an irregular heartbeat that prolongs the time it takes for blood to flow through the heart. Because of the predisposition to long QT, children treated for cancer typically have screening 12-lead ECGs at least once a week, Dr. Conyers said. However, outpatients also need a way to monitor heart rate.
“I read the Apple Heart Study and thought it might be important in pediatrics,” Dr. Conyers said.
In the coming months, Dr. Conyers and her team at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute will begin studying the sensitivity of the Apple Watch ECG app with 40 children and adolescent patients. The team will use this as a starting point,
Detecting firefighters’ heart rhythm health through Apple Watch
California has experienced multiple devastating wildfires in 2020 and 2021.
Through her contacts in the research community, Dr. Cheong learned that the Apple Watch could help her get the health information she needed. She added: “
As many as 200 firefighters will be involved in the study in areas where wildfire season begins in spring in Texas and summer in California. The study plans to monitor heart rate and rhythm, sleep, blood oxygen, activity data, etc. with Apple Watch.
“Firefighters will certainly benefit from this research.
Dr. Cheong said:“The point of this study was not to prove or disprove a hypothesis. It was more exploratory,
Apple Watch already being used to study atrial fibrillation
According to European epidemiologists, the incidence of atrial fibrillation in the European Union is expected to double by 2060. Atrial fibrillation is a common heart rhythm irregularity,
At the University Medical Center Amsterdam, Sebastiaan Blok, MD, Director of Smart Healthcare (eHealth) at the Netherlands Center for Cardiology, and his colleagues are exploring ways to detect atrial fibrillation early.
In the Netherlands, “approximately 300,000 people are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. But it is estimated that an additional 100,000 people may not know they have the condition because they are asymptomatic,” said study team member Nicole van Steijn, MD.
The study plans to enroll more than 300 patients over the age of 65 who meet atrial fibrillation risk thresholds. Half of the participants (the intervention group) wore the Apple Watch for at least 12 hours a day.
“The Apple Watch is a widely used and reliable consumer wearable device,” said Dr. Blok.
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The study is a start to what researchers hope to learn about the Apple Watch. In the future, they plan to explore various methods to