Does long-term cardiac monitoring using wearable devices like the Apple Watch reveal atrial fibrillation and prevent cryptogenic stroke?
Wearable devices like the Apple Watch may be useful for long-term cardiac monitoring to detect atrial fibrillation and prevent cryptogenic stroke, though further studies are needed.
Public interest in health monitoring devices has increased with the availability of wearable technologies or wearables such as the Apple Watch. These devices are collecting health data that may be useful to health professionals. Most studies to date have been conducted with a limited sample size and with healthy subjects. Recent studies have suggested the usefulness of long-term cardiac monitoring to reveal atrial fibrillation and prevent cryptogenic stroke. Wearable devices may become useful in cardiac monitoring, and further studies are needed.
Karmen et al. (Fri,) studied this question.