Smartwatches do a good job of identifying atrial fibrillation, according to a meta-analysis in JACC. The authors considered data from 26 studies that included 17,349 participants and found that smartwatches detect atrial fibrillation with high accuracy. Overall sensitivity was 94.8%, and specificity was 96.4%. The accuracy of the results varied when comparing each individual device, however. According to the authors, Amazfit (99% sensitivity; 99% specificity) and Samsung (97% sensitivity; 96% specificity) models performed at the …
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