A woman uses Apple Watch to prove to her doctors that she has a heart problem

It is often recommended not to rely too much on features on our smart watches, such as the included ECG feature in the Apple Watch smart watch, and instead to rely on professional medical equipment. This means that you should not rely 100 percent on the readings of these features for self-diagnosis, but instead you can take the readings as a sign that you should examine yourself.

In what seemed to be an evolution in events, a report from the European Heart Journal revealed a case of an 80-year-old woman who had already had to use her Apple Watch readings to prove to doctors that she was already suffering from a heart problem, a problem that did not appear In conventional ECG readings.

However, after reviewing the readings from her watch, the doctors eventually managed to diagnose her and determine which problem she had surgery on to fix it.

According to the doctors, they stated : “The development of smart technologies paves the 

way for new diagnostic capabilities. In the case of Apple Watch, after installing the smartphone app, the EKG recorder records the EKG while the finger is positioned on the watch's rotating button. 30 seconds data is stored in a PDF file that can be retrieved from 

the application. Thus, Apple Watch can be used not only to detect atrial fibrillation or atrioventricular disturbances, but also to detect myocardial ischemia. ”