Practically since its arrival on the market two and a half years ago, the Apple Watch has been studied to check all the possible functions it can have on a day-to-day basis. Obviously Apple is the first interested in this type of study, since they are one more reason to justify the purchase by the user.
The latest study related to Apple Wacth has been carried out by the University of San Francisco in California in collaboration with Cardiogram, a startup focused on health issues. This study reveals how the Apple Watch it can help us on a day-to-day basis to detect health problems.
The study shows us how the Apple Watch can help us detect problems of apnea during sleep and hypertension. According to this study, the Apple Watch is capable of detecting in 90% of cases, problems of apnea during sleep, while in the case of hypertension, the percentage of correct answers rises to 82%, spectacular figures. as they are.
To conduct this study, the Cardiogram application has been used in 6.000 participants for a specified time. During that time, the application detected sleep apnea problems in 1.016 participants, while users with hypertension rose to 2.230.
Johnson Hsieh, co-founder of Cardiogram, explains how this study is able to demonstrate how the Apple Watch continuously monitors us, alerting users when they begin to detect hypertension problems so that they go to the doctor as soon as possible and avoid greater evils.
The idea of this study is to conduct an ongoing assessment to identify people with hypertension who may not know they have it. Once the problem has been detected, and to obtain a proper diagnosis, the user has to go to the doctor to check with a blood pressure meter what the levels are and subsequently follow the appropriate treatment.
Studies like Cardiogram show us how useful the Apple Watch can be not only for the health of users, but also for the health industry and as time passes it will be interesting to see how the capabilities of Apple's wearable are expanded to cover more topics related to health.
Apple has very ambitious health plans for the Apple Watch and earlier this year announced a new study called Apple Hear Rate, a study conducted in collaboration with Stanford University. watchOS 4 brings us a host of new heart tracking features as part of Apple's efforts in this regard.
