Your Apple Watch can now record your ECG – but what does that mean and can you trust it?
- Written by Shane Nanayakkara, Cardiologist, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Apple's smart watch can now read your heart current.from shutterstock.com
Apple’s new, fourth-generation watch has an electrical heart rate sensor. This can record your electrocardiogram or ECG, which Apple says:
… can classify if the heart is beating in a normal pattern or whether there are signs of atrial fibrillation (AFib), a heart...
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