Sinus bradycardia, or a slow heart rate, can be a sign of cardiovascular health in healthy young adults and endurance athletes. It can also be a sign of an underlying condition requiring medical ...

The time it takes the heart to return to its baseline rhythm after exercise can predict a host of cardiovascular or metabolic disorders. In a new study, scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana ...

Walking 10,000 steps a day is a popular health goal, but researchers have introduced a new, potentially more powerful metric: ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) is an essential physiological metric offering insights into autonomic nervous system activity and cardiovascular regulation. In ...

If you're not hypersensitive to tight devices, a chest strap is unquestionably better than your current smartwatch.

A lower DHRPS is better (something more like 0.008), Zhanlin Chen explains. This could signify someone who takes 10,000 steps ...

A Northwestern medical student has found a better way of measuring someone's heart health by smartwatch using a formula of ...

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better.

People with smartwatches might have a better way than counting steps to monitor their heart health Dividing average daily heart rate by the number of daily steps is a more important measure of heart ...

A team of medical researchers and engineers at Google Research has developed a way to use the front-facing camera on a smartphone to monitor a patient's heart rate. The team has published a paper on ...

This PowerShell script checks and adjusts the refresh rate for a specified monitor. It verifies if the monitor's current refresh rate is below a desired rate, and if so, updates it to the specified ...

The department recently purchased new heart monitors through a state financing program. Daily Journal File Photo A state program has helped the White River Township Fire buy new automated heart ...