Compared with regular checks in primary care, continuous ECG monitoring revealed more asymptomatic older people with hypertension as having atrial fibrillation (Afib), the SCREEN-AF trial showed. The ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In Friday’s Health headlines, February is heart month, and we’re talking about AFib, portable EKG devices, and how stress this season can be hard on the heart. Yale Medicine ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two studies found that mass screening for atrial fibrillation in older adults does not reduce stroke. In one ...
A new analysis of connected health device data from 470,000 US women finds that atrial fibrillation prevalence rises 3.8x ...
Mass screening for atrial fibrillation using ECG together with heart failure biomarker does not prevent ischaemic stroke or systemic embolism (blood clot) in older adults aged 75-76 years over 5 years ...
Apple has landed a new FDA clearance for an updated version of its ECG feature, allowing the tool to add a category called A-Fib with high heart rate. This comes a little over two years after Apple ...
Point-of-care screening for atrial fibrillation (A-fib) using a new generation of handheld electrocardiogram (ECG) devices increased the rate of diagnosis in patients 85 and older, but failed to show ...
Rhythm (Nasdaq:IRTC) today announced findings from two real-world analyses supporting its long-term heart monitoring ...
Stanford's Dr. Perez shows Apple Watches detect AFib with 86% accuracy, offering accessible cardiac monitoring as 115M ...
This is a MedPage Today story. Paul Chernoff was in the middle of a Zoom call this past June when his Apple Watch sent him an alert. His heart rate had jumped to 142 beats per minute, and he might be ...