For some years I have tracked my AF using a Polar chest band, which dumps heart rate records into my phone via bluetooth. Then I ship it to a server in influxdb and render it with grafana.
It's all very non-medically approved but I have found it super useful to see the benefits of exercise (in my case anyway) in managing and somewhat taming my out of rhythm periods. I can get an idea how hard to push my heart before it goes out.
Yes, it is clearly obvious just from pulse rate when my heart goes out of rhythm.The rate suddenly spikes and becomes highly variable. It's just as obvious when it drops back into rhythm. For me, that's typically a few minutes or hours after it goes out.
Newish Polar bands (H10, maybe H7) send data on each beat. There are apps that use this to track heart rate variability (the variance in the gap between heart beats) which can be used as a measure of "readiness" in athletes
just to understand - do you use this to avoid out of rhythm periods when excercising (by monitoring your heart rate), and then to have some evidence of less and less AF over time, thanks to the excercise?
It’s not what your asking, but having tried to exercise when in AF it’s horrible. A steam engine with a hole in the boiler is what it feels like, but with more sweat.
This is the study Apple did with Stanford. It's based on the photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor from the pre-Series 4 Apple Watches. Presumably the new Apple heart study announced will also use the ECG in the Series 4 and later [1].
does anyone know how informed consent took place for this study? it seems like it would be required, but it also seems really difficult to do at this scale.
i tried to find a mention of it in the abstract or the clinicaltrials.gov entry, but was unable to find it.
It's all very non-medically approved but I have found it super useful to see the benefits of exercise (in my case anyway) in managing and somewhat taming my out of rhythm periods. I can get an idea how hard to push my heart before it goes out.