Fitbit Heart Study

Fitbit may reduce your risk of stroke and heart failure: The Fitbit Heart Study Fitbit, a wearable device What is Fitbit Fitbit is one of the several companies (Apple, Samsung, etc.,) that sell smartwatches that could track heart rate, daily steps, workout time, etc., among several other uses. Although smartwatch is the main product of Fitbit, other products including trackers (that also look…

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AI to study heart function using echo

Introduction Ultrasound diagnostics called echocardiography is used to evaluate the anatomy and functionality of the human heart. An initial screening for systolic and diastolic heart failure can be performed following an echocardiography test. This test is also important to differentiate between systolic and diastolic dysfunction without echocardiography cardiac imaging. Therefore, manual echocardiography interpretation can be time-consuming and prone to inaccuracy. The following article…

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AI for heart failure diagnosis

Introduction   Research reveals that artificial intelligence can identify acute heart failure more precisely than existing blood testing alone. Artificial intelligence (AI) uses methods such as Machine Learning and its variant Deep Learning to do tasks that need human intelligence. AI is rapidly being used to improve diagnosis, therapy, risk prediction, clinical care, and drug development in the field of cardiovascular medicine. Heart…

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