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I hope wearing an Apple watch is not a risk factor for heart attacks? :-)
by kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
I hope wearing an Apple watch is not a risk factor for heart attacks? :-)
- p1necone 5y agoI can imagine there being a small positive correlation between wearing an Apple watch and having heart attacks, somewhat like the plane armor story from WWII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_military https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_milit...). Without the Apple watch monitoring your heart rate: you don't see the warning signs early enough and have a fatal heart attack, once. With the Apple watch: you get alerted earlier, get to hospital and survive your heart attack. So you can go on to have another, and another, and another. All contributing to the "heart attacks while wearing Apple watches" statistic ;)
- meheleventyone 5y agoFWIW Apple watches are 100% not recommended as a way of telling if you're having a heart attack: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208931 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208931 They're also not testing for the more dangerous ventricular fibrillation.
- raxxorrax 5y agoI believe elevated anxiety for health isn't good for your health in general, especially for your heart.