Smartwatches get smarter with AF options but check out small print

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Smartwatches get smarter with AF options but check out small print

Jim Vause

Monday 24 September 2018, 02:47 PM

AF 'epidemic' likely to escalate as smartwatches move in on heart rate detection boom

It was only a matter of time before someone popped a single lead ECG into one of those wrist weightbelts called a smartwatch, or should that be dumbbe

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