What do do if your smartwatch delivers heart rate data which cannot be reproduced by other scientists? – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on April 6, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Smartwatches to not fullfill the requirements of gold standard for heart rate measurements, which are:

A three lead (or 3 channel) ECG device
The Mason-Likar electrode placement
ECG-based HR has to be determined by visual assessment of a trained research personnel.

090d. Why Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org does not know if the scientific data of Rob ter Horsts more than 100 smartwatch accuracy tests nor the scientific data in accuracy validation papers about consumer grade heart rate monitors will be reproduced convincingly by other scientists?

If these requirements are not full-filled, it has to tested if the smartwatches deliver reproducable and accurate data. So how to proceed?

Let Rob ter Horst test the smartwatches on YouTube:

An refer to a paper of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219/#full-view-affiliation-1

2. Then Peter H Charlton can write a paper with those:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6579/acead2

3. Then Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org can doubt about all the scientific data which has been published, since those have not been reproduced by other scientists.

4. And finally, the next scientist can test the smartwatches with a Schiller ECG treadmill for the next accracy tests:

with the protocol used by the Cardiologists of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6732081