Fitbit is currently working with sleep labs to study how prototypes perform in
detecting sleep apnea.
Fitbit wants to eventually use this sensor to
detect sleep apnea, but that's just something the company is exploring for now.
Eventually Fitbit wants to use it to
detect sleep apnea, though it's not implemented on the device yet.
Combined with heart rate, your blood oxygen level and so - called desaturations can reliably be used to
detect sleep apnea (a pause in breathing due to obesity or obstruction).
Wareable, the site that leaked the images in this article, says that the new watch will be water resistant up to 50 meters (164 feet), have SpO2 sensors to
detect sleep apnea, and won't come with a built - in GPS.
This means Fitbit will have to seriously consider whether it goes the FDA approval route, or whether it's going to attempt to
detect sleep apnea with its usual direct - to - consumer devices, which would still require a serious validation process.
Not exact matches
The AAP recommends against using home cardiorespiratory monitors, the kind that
detect apnea (pauses in breathing while
sleeping), brachycardia (heart rate drops) and / or blood hemoglobin oxygenation.
It
detected 82 percent of those with moderate disease and 90 percent of those with severe
sleep apnea.
Sleep tests are particularly useful in detecting sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcol
Sleep tests are particularly useful in
detecting sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcol
sleep disorders such as
sleep apnea and narcol
sleep apnea and narcolepsy.
In addition to early signs of diabetes, DeepHeart has also been demonstrated to
detect other heart - related conditions like hypertension,
sleep apnea, atrial fibrillation.
App maker Cardiogram says they collected the heart rate metrics of over 14,000 Apple Watch and Android Smartwatch users, mixed in an AI algorithm called DeepHeart, and found they could
detect prediabetes along with high blood pressure,
sleep apnea and heart defects like atrial fibrillation — also known as A-Fib — with high rates of accuracy.
But
detecting or monitoring
sleep apnea might be more challenging than it seems for a consumer wearable company like Fitbit, and is more complicated than adding oxygen sensors to a watch and cranking data through algorithms.