About a year ago Apple made headlines when the Apple Watch became the first ECG reading wearable to get FDA-clearance. It’s part of a trend for health tracking tech – that now includes this credit-card sized WiWe portable ECG monitor – that’s attempting to make it easier than ever to keep track of your heart health.
This smart pocket-friendly ECG device offers clinical-grade electrocardiogram readouts from a simple piece of tech that fits in your pocket. The WiWe ECG monitor spots serious heart conditions such as AFib and arrhythmia from a simple test you can do anywhere, that takes just a minute. All your data – including full ECG reports – syncs to a partner smartphone app. And a really easy-to-understand traffic light system that alerts you when it spots something that means you should seek more detailed help from a medical professional.
WiWe’s main focus is medical and health, to help people pick up potentially life-threatening heart abnormalities. It also let’s those with existing conditions monitor themselves without the need to get wired up in a clinic. However, being able to track heart data – with a 98.7% level of accuracy against clinical samples – also makes it a potentially powerful tool for general fitness and anyone involved in endurance sports too.
ECG for endurance and fitness
There have been some very high profile instances of professional athletes suffering serious consequences from undiagnosed heart conditions. The strong associations between long-term endurance sporting participation and the risk of atrial fibrillation have also been well documented. While AFib on its own isn’t usually life threatening, it can put you at a much higher risk of stroke. It’s why an ECG report for the Marathon des Sables is obligatory. And taking regular ECG readings, therefore, could spot crucial warning signs early.
In addition, there’s potential to use a device like this for monitoring your recovery and training readiness, to identify interesting patterns in pre-bedtime heart rate or even moments of stress during the day.
From smart scales and fitness trackers, to chest straps and portable ECG machines, monitoring heart rate is now far more common. I recently wrote a piece for Netdoctor looking at the latest heart rate tech examining just this. But seeing this level of accuracy and detail in a device that’s so easy to use is pretty exciting. Watch the video below to get a closer look at the Wiwe, and hear why I think this product is exciting for us all.
WiWe Portable ECG Monitor
NOTE: The prices quoted in the video are promotional prices correct at the time but only valid until 31 May 2019. After then the WiWe will be €289.00.
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