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This Apple Device Might Reveal if You Have COVID-19
A popular accessory can detect changes in your body that indicate an infection.
Wearing an Apple Watch might help you detect if you have been infected with the coronavirus.
The smartwatch can measure small changes in your heartbeat that can reveal a case of COVID-19 up to seven days before the watch’s wearer is actually diagnosed, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
In the study, nearly 300 health care workers in the Mount Sinai Health System wore an Apple Watch and downloaded a customized app onto their iPhones so researchers could track changes in heart rate variability, which is a measure of nervous system function.
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Mount Sinai s Warrior Watch Study is ongoing. Other researchers have also found benefits in so-called wearables like the Apple Watch, Fitbit and other fitness trackers.
Nature Biomedical Engineering found that smartwatch data can help detect COVID-19 before it s diagnosed through a test. The researchers from Stanford University looked at factors including heart rate, number of daily steps or time asleep.
Retrospectively, they found for example that 63% of the COVID-19 cases could have been detected before symptom onset in real-time via a two-tiered warning system based on the occurrence of extreme elevations in resting heart rate relative to the individual baseline, the authors state in their paper.