Personal Heart Monitors – Wall Street Journal
An interesting article came out on October 10, 2022. The article was written by a physician that addressed the issue of anxiety related to personal heart monitoring devices. Reference “My watch says I off, what do I do, October 03, Journal other author. As indicated in this article, “none of these devices can detect the electrical indicators of a heart attack which has much greater morbidity and mortality than atrial fibrillation.” “Lay people could easily misinterpret the advertising of these device manufactures”. The overall outcome of this article was “to have regular check ups and alerting your provider when new symptoms arise. “This approach is evidence based and cost effective, per the author.
It is important to focus on a holistic approach to managing your health. This means that any personal health monitoring device needs to be multi-parameter. It should correlate all this information in a way so that the individual has the information at hand.
