Asymptomatic AFib is a silent condition, so it often goes undetected until a routine physical, smart technology alert, or a ...

Monitoring your heart health and fitness has never been easier thanks to the variety of trackers and smart watches. However, Apple watches, specifically, and those with atrial fibrillation (a common ...

Smartwatch screening detects atrial fibrillation earlier and more often, offering a scalable strategy to improve stroke prevention and clinical care globally.

The use of consumer smartwatches within telemonitoring boosts new diagnoses of atrial fibrillation (AF) compared with standard approaches in older patients who are at high risk for stroke, the ...

Screening improves detection of new-onset atrial fibrillation among patients at elevated stroke risk. (HealthDay News) — Six-month smartwatch-based atrial fibrillation (AF) screening improves ...

Smart watches and devices are making more people aware of their irregular heartbeats. In fact, in some cases, they are leading to a common condition being diagnosed sooner: Atrial Fibrillation, ...

San Antonio Spurs legend and NBA commentator Sean Elliott recently experienced a health scare highlighting Apple Watch’s potentially life-saving capabilities. Elliott, known his role in the Spurs’ ...

A watch alert helped detect heart disorder after an in-office EKG looked normal, doctors said.

Apple shook up the digital health world in September when it announced the newest Apple Watch would offer a direct-to-consumer electrocardiogram app. Now, it looks like the Cupertino, Calif.-based ...

(RTTNews) - New peer-reviewed research showed that the Apple Watch may be much more effective at detecting atrial fibrillation (AFib) than traditional methods, as the smartwatch monitoring found many ...