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A recent study has shown that the Apple Watch can help detect silent heart disease. (Image: Apple)
A woman named Ellen Thompson credits her Apple Watch for diagnosing her heart condition after an irregular heart rhythm was detected in the device’s ECG app.
The Apple Watch has once again proven its ability to save lives, this time by detecting an unknown heart condition in a woman named Ellen Thompson.
According to AppleInsider, after experiencing seizures in 2018, Thompson was advised by her daughter to wear the watch as part of her post-diagnosis treatment. What she didn’t know was that the ECG app on her Apple Watch would detect irregular heart rhythms, which would lead to heart disease.
Thompson’s Apple Watch reportedly indicated that her heart rhythm was irregular, prompting her to consult a cardiologist. To monitor his condition, the cardiologist fitted him with a heart monitor for a week.
The doctors were finally diagnosed with a heart block and a pacemaker was fitted.
“It saved my life. If I didn’t have the alert I wouldn’t have brought it to the doctor. Now I wear the Apple Watch all the time,” Thompson told the Independent.
She said, “It was very scary knowing that I could die. I fell flat for 19 seconds. I might not have woken up.”
Apple introduced health tracking back in 2018, when it launched the Apple Watch Series 4—the first Apple Watch to include ECG functionality.
In other news, the Apple Watch helped a 16-year-old boy in Colorado avoid a possible coma by detecting low blood oxygen levels while skiing with his mom. Timely detection allowing for medical attention and recovery.
During a skiing trip in Colorado, CBS 8 news anchor Marcella Lee’s son had a low blood oxygen level detected by his Apple Watch. She noticed her son’s lips and fingers turning blue and placed her Apple Watch on his wrist to measure his blood oxygen saturation, which displayed a dangerously low reading of 66%. This prompted Lee to quickly seek medical attention for his son.
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