Wearables could detect early signs of diabetes

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A large-scale study involving more than 14,000 Apple Watch and Android Wear users has shown that heart-rate data from the wearables can detect early signs of diabetes.[br][br]The study - a collaboration between UC San Francisco and digital health startup Cardiogram - was able to determine that 463 participants had previously undiagnosed diabetes ...[br][br]Cardiogram co-founder Johnson Hsieh explained how the condition can be diagnosed using nothing more than heart-rate data.[br][br]"In 2015, the Framingham Heart Study showed that high resting heart rate and low heart rate variability predicts who will develop diabetes over a 12-year period. Then, 33,628 person-weeks of health sensor data was used to train a deep neural network by presenting it with samples from people with and without diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, atrial fibrillation, and high cholesterol."[br][br]There have been a number of stories of the Apple Watch alerting owners to undiagnosed health conditions, with some crediting the Watch for saving their life.