Last Updated on January 4, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Rahel Gilgen-Ammann, Theresa Schweizer and Thomas Wyss from the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen published a paper about the RR interval signal quality of a heart rate monitor and an ECG Holter at rest and during exercise in the European Journal of Applied Physioly. 2019 Jul;119(7):1525-1532.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219/
They compared the accuracy o fa Schiller Medilog AR12 Plus Holter ECG to the accuracy of a Polar H10 chest strap. They found a signal quality of the Polar H10 chest strap of 99.6.
197 authors cited the paper to this date:
Where these authors aware that the Schiller Medilog AR12 Plus Holter ECG is not ECG noise and movement artefact free?
Rob ter Horst, PhD. from the The Quantified Scientist was happy about this paper:
Rob entiteld his review: „Polar H10 Scientific Review: Best for Heart Rate, 99.6% Accurate“. Adinstruments says, that their LabChart software with the Equivital sensor belt is ECG noise and movement artefact free:
Is the the Polar H10 chest strap more accurate than the Adinstruments Equital with LabChart software? We strongly doubt about this. Adinstruments Labchart software is very expensive. Evan Matthews, PhD. from Montclair State University uses LabChart software, which he demonstrates for instance on his YouTube channel Vivo Phys. Evans additionally would need an Adinstruments Equivital Sensor belt, to have a setup which is ECG noise and motion artefact free.
Evan publishes in papers like Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, where previously papers about sports sensor accuracy have been published. It would be highly desirable that Evan or other scientists, who own the Adinstruments Labchart software with the Equivital sensor belt tests the Adinstruments setup against the lastest and most accurate sports heart rate monitors.
Nobody has tested the Adinstruments Labchart software with the Equivital sensor belt against the most recent and most accurate sports heart rate monitors before. Is Rob ter Horsts statement true, that the Polar H10 chest strap is the most accurate device? We strongly doubt about this. A validation study which compares these devices to each other is something nobody ever has done before, and is therefore worth publishing in papers like Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.