Apple has always worked so that the Apple Watch, its connected watch, becomes a weight of weight in monitoring our daily health, and it seems thatThis work has borne fruit. Apple's watch would indeed be a very good tool to follow, in the long term, the effects of COVID-19 on a patient.
According to a study published in Jama Network Open and relayed byNew York Times, connected watches like Apple Watch or Fitbit can provide doctors with essential medical information in long-term monitoring of patients affected by the COVVI-19. This study, conducted by researchers from the Research Translational Institute in California Scripps between March 25, 2020 and January 24, 2021, draws its conclusions on data from more than 37,000 American volunteers.
Now, the researchers deepen their analyzes by focusing on the long-term effects of the COVI-19 on health, especially for people with "long covid". According to them, the most visible change would be the heart rate at rest which would evolve significantly in people affected by the COVIR. For Jennifer Radin, an epidemiologist at Scripps, the sleep phases are also disturbed by the disease.
A first study to "open the way"
Dr. Jennifer Radin said that the results, if encouraging, do not demonstrate in themselves the effectiveness of portable products on long-term medical surveillance. She thinks thatnew studies, even more in -depth than his, should take place in the coming months to scientifically prove the effectiveness of connected watches, both the Apple Watch and Fitbit products, also cited in the study of Radin Doctor.
"We want, in a way, to better collect the long -term symptoms in order to be able to compare the physiological changes that we observe with the symptoms that the participants really feel"said Dr. Radin.“It is therefore really a preliminary study that opens the way to many other studies. »»
The scientific and medical world is increasingly interestedto the new options offered by connected watchesin day -to -day patient monitoring. If they also warn abusive surveillance, which could have harmful effects, their almost permanent presence makes it possible to have a degree of precision never reached in medical analysis. The great challenge to come will therefore be able to understand the mass of data collected by watches in order to know how to link them to pathologies and therefore prescribe the right treatment.
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