Sentences with phrase «tracking sleep apnea»

For example, new red and infrared light sensors on the bottom of the watch will let Ionic calculate relative blood oxygen levels of people wearing it, eventually opening the door tracking their sleep apnea, a dangerous condition that affects some 22 million Americans.

Fitbit has insisted that more advanced health tracking is coming — stuff that could potentially track sleep apnea or glucose levels — but in the meantime, it just needs something to sell.

One thing worth noting about the new Versa is that it has the same relative SpO2 sensor cluster as the Fitbit Ionic — a different physical pattern of sensors, but they're the same ones that are supposed to help Fitbit in its quest to potentially track sleep apnea.

The smartwatch will be water - resistant up to 50m and comes with the Ionic's SpO2 sensor that'll eventually be able to track sleep apnea, but one thing it won't have is built - in GPS.

This will allow the smartwatch to track sleep apnea when Fitbit enables the functionality with an update.

Oh, and an SpO2 sensor will be onboard to track sleep apnea... eventually.

To accurately track sleep apnea, «you need airflow and you need some measure of respiratory effort, which is usually a band around the chest and abdomen,» he says.

Not exact matches

The technology tracks dips in oxygen levels during the night, a possible indicator of sleep apnea.

The retrospective cohort study used records from Taiwan's single - payer National Health Insurance program to track treatment of 1,377 people who were diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea between 2000 and 2008.

One shirt made by VivoMetrics is used to track the state of people who suffer from sleep apnea, and the same technology could readily be adapted as a sensor for sleeping infants to help avoid sudden infant death syndrome.

McKenna and his colleagues suggest one kind of «glitch» involved in SIDS may be the result of these integrating neural tracks developing at different rates, leading to a sleeping infant experiencing sleep apnea, or an involuntary pause in breathing, that is not stopped by either sub-system.

STATUS: An initial laboratory trial has shown ApneaApp to be just as effective as hooking up patients to tracking instruments in a sleep clinic, the most common way to screen for apnea.

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The watch is rated to 50 meters underwater, which is great news for swimmers, and a new SpO2 sensor is supposed to help track things like sleep apnea, but hasn't been implemented yet.

While the company says it won't do a lot with this information at launch, one of its goals is to eventually allow users to track common breathing disorders like sleep apnea — a common theme with Ionic is that future software updates will allow the wearable do much more in the weeks and months to come.