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Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability T... by 1024core on Sunday September 17, 2023 @01:39AM (#37541862)
Has anybody used the H10 to monitor Atrial Fibrillation (aka "afib")? I'd like to use the H10 to collect data that I can share with my physician.
Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability T... by anonuser123456 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @01:49AM (#37541899)
What do you expect your doc to do with the data? Are you trying to capture very infrequent events or trying to quantify your afib burden?
Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability T... by rnk on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:09AM (#37542010)
I thought an apple watch identify afib history too.
Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability T... by anonuser123456 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:34AM (#37542129)
You have to know if you have afib though, which can be tough to detect for people with infrequent and self limiting cases.

Example; I get bigeminy PACs, which apple watch flags as possible afib when there is noise that obscures the p-wave. But my cardiologist has seen the pattern on a more sensitive device and says it’s not afib.

Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability T... by Temporary_31337 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:30AM (#37544358)
Also one can have arrhythmia that is not afib
Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability T... by 1024core on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:20PM (#37548925)
Just show him what I'm experiencing. Sometimes it's hard to describe in words; try saying this to your cardiologist: "my heart goes thump-thump and then pauses for a second and then goes thump-thump-thump in rapid succession"
Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability T... by anonuser123456 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:41PM (#37550488)
Get a Kardia 6 leed ecg device (around 150 USD). They even have one that fits in your wallet.

Heart rate is not enough. You need to look at the QRS and P wave via ECG.

Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability T... by kbre93 on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:54AM (#37553475)
This would be possible I with the Polar H10 I think. The H10 sends raw ECG and analysis on this waveform could be used to find anomalies like afib. I haven't done this myself though.