Are some of the scientific accuracy studies about consumer grade HRMS controlled by international marketing agencies & which decide when these papers are published?

Last Updated on April 5, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

The paper:

RR interval signal quality of a heart rate monitor and an ECG Holter at rest and during exercise

which was published in the

European Journal of Applied Physiology

in

July 2019

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219

By

Rahel Gilgen-Ammann, Theresa Schweizer & Thomas Wyss from the Swiss Federal Institute of Sports in Magglingen:

and discussed by Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org here:

Why Rob ter Horst PhD. could not convince us to use the Polar H10 or one of the 100 smartwatches he tested four our scientific studies

And a second paper about consumer grade heart rate monitors and ECG devices:

Accuracy of commercially available heart rate monitors in athletes: a prospective study

was published in

August 2019

In Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

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

by Selena R. Pasadyn, Mohamad Soudan, Marc Gillinov, Penny Houghtaling, Dermot Phelan, Nicole Gillinov, Barbara Bittel, and Milind Y. Desai

All of these authors where if we remember correctly cardiologists which are researchers at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio:

We have discussed these two papers here:

Why Rob ter Horst PhD. could not convince us to use the Polar H10 or one of the 100 smartwatches he tested four our scientific studies

And both of these paper are about ECG devices and consumer grade heart rate monitors. And both of them contain information which seems contradictory at first sight, but they do not refer to each other and do not cite each other. And the discussion about both of these papers has only been lead by Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org under the tag «PPG devices»:

https://petergamma.org/category/optical-heart-rate-sensor

until the present day as far as we know. If all of this is true, then eventually these marketing agencies already have all to scientific data about all the different smartwatches. And these data are only published by Rob ter Horst on YouTube:

Did Rob ter Horst systematically falsify his experiments about smartwaches accuracy on YouTube – as Isidro Ballart falsified his experiments 30 years ago?

But by no one else and also not by other scientists, neither on YouTube nor in scientific papers? Since these data can only be poorly reproduced, and the effort for publishing such scientific data and papers about smartwatches is very high? Especially if we expect that the outcome of such validation papers about consumer grade heart monitors on the sales rates of smartwatches is negative?

The data of these papers where discussed in this review by Peter Gamma fom www.petergamma.org who does not have a conflict of interest:

090. Review of Accuracy Studies of Consumer Grade Heart Rate Monitors: Methods, Testing Protocols, Reference Devices