LONDON, Jan 17 — The Fitbit on your wrist not only counts your steps and minutes of sleep, it can also help tell if you’re coming down with the flu — and warn health authorities to get ready to help. A study in the United States has found that heart rate and sleep data from wearable fitness...
Fitbit devices are displayed in a store in New York November 4, 2019. — Reuters pic
journal, showed that by using Fitbit data, state-wide predictions of flu outbreaks were improved and accelerated. “Responding more quickly to influenza outbreaks can prevent further spread and infection, and we were curious to see if sensor data could improve real-time surveillance,” said Jennifer Radin, who co-led that study at the US Scripps Research Translational Institute.
Users’ resting heart rate and sleep duration were monitored and flagged as abnormal if the average weekly heart rate was significantly above their overall average and their weekly average sleep was not below their overall average.
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