{"id":9055,"date":"2023-02-22T18:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/wearable-fitness-trackers-could-interfere-with-cardiac-devices-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T18:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:37:37","slug":"wearable-fitness-trackers-could-interfere-with-cardiac-devices-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/wearable-fitness-trackers-could-interfere-with-cardiac-devices-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearable fitness trackers could interfere with cardiac devices, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioimpedance sensing technologies as used in smartwatches could affect implanted devices like pacemakers<\/p>\n<p>Wearable fitness and wellness trackers could interfere with some implanted cardiac devices such as pacemakers, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p>Devices such as smartwatches, smart rings and smart scales used to monitor fitness-related activities could interfere with the functioning of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) such as pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) devices, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartrhythmjournal.com\/article\/S1547-5271(22)02696-0\/fulltext\">study published in the Heart Rhythm journal<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/feb\/22\/wearable-fitness-trackers-could-interfere-with-cardiac-devices-study-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c677becf718a0b7af85919daef177b6acfcadd9e\/0_429_6439_3864\/master\/6439.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=89d669c92f9ddd2c572320865179bace\" title=\"Wearable fitness trackers could interfere with cardiac devices, study finds\" \/>Bioimpedance sensing technologies as used in smartwatches could affect implanted devices like pacemakers<br \/>\nWearable fitness and wellness trackers could interfere with some implanted cardiac devices such as pacemakers, according to a study.<br \/>\nDevices such as smartwatches, smart rings and smart scales used to monitor fitness-related activities could interfere with the functioning of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) such as pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) devices, the study published in the Heart Rhythm journal found. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioimpedance sensing technologies as used in smartwatches could affect implanted devices like pacemakers Wearable fitness and wellness trackers could interfere with some implanted cardiac devices such as pacemakers, according to a study. Devices such as smartwatches, smart rings and smart scales used to monitor fitness-related activities could interfere with the functioning of cardiac implantable electronic &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/wearable-fitness-trackers-could-interfere-with-cardiac-devices-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wearable fitness trackers could interfere with cardiac devices, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}