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Apple Watch heart monitoring causes too many false alarms, study says – USA TODAY
Medical study findings indicate that Apple Watches may trigger false alarms that send too many people to the doctor.
A New Jersey woman is alive because her Apple Watch alerted her to an elevated heart rate. It turned out she had fluid around her heart from a viral infection.
USA TODAY
Heart monitoring technology in smartwatches can be life-saving. It may also lead to false-positive results, unnecessary visits to the doctor and needless anxiety among users, medical researchers warn.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that only 11.4% of patients who visite…
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