{"id":88754,"date":"2019-03-18T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/major-us-study-finds-apple-watch-can-detect-heart-issues"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:42:42","slug":"major-us-study-finds-apple-watch-can-detect-heart-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/major-us-study-finds-apple-watch-can-detect-heart-issues","title":{"rendered":"Major US study finds Apple Watch can detect heart issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-us-study-finds-apple-watch-can-detect-heart-issues.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers with the Stanford University School of Medicine found in a <a href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/all-news\/2019\/03\/apple-heart-study-demonstrates-ability-of-wearable-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a> sponsored by Apple and released Saturday that the company\u2019s smartwatches can detect irregular heart rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>Of the approximately 400,000 participants using Apple Watches in the eight-month study, 0.5 percent, or about 2,000 people, were sent irregular heart rhythm notifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of the Apple Heart Study highlight the potential role that innovative digital technology can play in creating more predictive and preventive health care,\u201d Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/technology\/434383-major-us-study-finds-apple-watch-can-detect-heart-issues\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/technology\/434383-majo...art-issues<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers with the Stanford University School of Medicine found in a study sponsored by Apple and released Saturday that the company\u2019s smartwatches can detect irregular heart rhythms. Of the approximately 400,000 participants using Apple Watches in the eight-month study, 0.5 percent, or about 2,000 people, were sent irregular heart rhythm notifications. \u201cThe results of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}