Sohu Pharmaceutical | TODAY: Smart watches found women's heart tumors

Produced | Sohu Health

Author | Zhou Yichuan

Edit | Yuan Yue

The US TODAY website reported that a lady found a rare cardiac tumor in the hospital after receiving the "atrial fibrillation" alert issued by a smart watch.

67 -year -old Durkee began to wear smart watches two years ago to prevent accidents from going out. In May this year, the watch suddenly issued an irregular warning of heartbeat in the middle of the night, showing that atrial fibrillation may be risk of stroke and heart failure. After receiving the warning for three consecutive nights, she went to the hospital for examination.

The doctor did not believe the diagnosis of the watch at first. Once the examination was indeed a atrial fibrillation, it was further performed by the ultrasonic heart actions and found that the heart had mucus tumors. This is a rare and fast -growing non -cancer tumor. risk. One month later, she underwent tumor resection.

Can smart watches really prevent heart disease? The recent research on the Sidama Center stated that only 0.25%of the nearly 2,000 users who judged atrial fibrillation risk need to receive anticoagulant therapy, which may be related to the lighter age of the test group; 0.52%of the 420,000 users Received alarm, 34%of them diagnosed atrial fibrillation, this false positive rate may reduce practicality.

On the other hand, the application of smart watches is indeed related to increased consultation rate. Some studies have stated that among 264 users who were warned and diagnosed with arrhythmia due to abnormal pulse, only 30 were known for known heart disease patients; a 16,000 room tremor patient survey, smart watch users had a higher consultation rate.

In general, smart watches may be a "double -edged sword", and it is found that the hidden disease is found and brought about information overload. If you are warned, especially high -risk factors such as old age and hypertension, you may wish to check it out.

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