"There still is a problem with a lot of false positives, where the device claims a person has atrial fibrillation, but they do not," said Professor Jens Cosedis Nielsen of Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. 'Wearables may be very valuable in the future but at the moment they do not have a defined place in risk assessment,' "Furthermore, if a smartwatch picks up 30 minutes of incidental atrial fibrillation in a person with no symptoms, we have no data on whether anticoagulation prevents stroke in this situation," he explained in a paper published in EP Europace, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Wearables may be very valuable in the future but at the moment they do not have a defined place in risk assessment, the authors wrote. The probability of developing atrial fibrillation rises with increasing age, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and prior heart attack. Behaviour modification, such as reducing alcohol intak...
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