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Does an Apple Watch actually tell you if you are?

>>divide+(OP)
It monitors for atrial fibrilation using a single leak EKG I think.

It is very clear about the fact it cannot detect a heart attack though.

Then there’s these slightly more sophisticated things: https://store.kardia.com/products/kardiamobile6l

>>Aeolun+a3
I don't believe it uses the EKG functionality to detect afib. I think it's just using some sort of machine learning on the data coming from the photoplethysmograph sensor (now that's a word I had to look up to remember the correct spelling for). Basically the sensor that takes your pulse.

The EKG, as far as I know, doesn't really tell you much other than whether it thinks you have a normal sinus rhythm, or something it doesn't recognize. Too fast, too slow, or whatever. It's also on demand, not continuous. You have to touch a finger from your opposite hand to the crown, while the EKG app is running.

Also, that Kardia advertising is borderline scam. It's a 1 lead EKG just like the Apple Watch. Six lead my ass, they make that claim because you can contort your body in enough ways to take readings from each standard EKG location. You can sorta do the same thing with an apple watch, though it's not physically as large so it wouldn't be as easy. What rubs me the wrong way about calling the Kardia a 6-lead EKG is that it cannot do 6-leads simultaneously, and I think that is a critical detail.

I had a Kardia myself before the first Apple Watch with EKG came out.

>>Aeolun+a3
The "very clear about the fact it cannot detect a heart attack" thing is so obnoxious that it actually kinda breaks that app. If you got a messy/noisy EKG reading and want to do it again, you have to carefully scrooll to the bottom of the page and click done. Or you accidentally tap the large grey box at the top that takes you to a multi-page legal explanation of how it's not meant to detect a heart attack - and that page has a teeny tiny button at the top left to take you back to the last page.

>>Aeolun+a3
> it cannot detect a heart attack though

Perhaps the watch can detect deadly heart attacks (stopped heartbeat)? Although I’m not sure how much use that feature would be.

>>rootus+Dy
Kardia has both the single lead body contortion thing and their 6-lead version, which has 3 metal plates and does a lot more at the same time.

It’s not like you should expect it to be a full EKG :P