Last Updated on September 30, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
- In a paper of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sports Magglingen, it says, a simple chest strap such as the Polar H10 might be recommended as the gold standard for RR interval assessments if intense activities with strong body movements are investigated:
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- This is might be true for intense activities with strong body movements, where signal quality is measured and compared between a Holter ECG and a Polar H10 chest strap.
- In the paper of the Swiss Federal Instute of Sports in Magglingen, previous findings of the group of cardiologist Milind Y. Desai from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, which tested the Polar H7 chest strap, are ignored and not discussed.
- In two papers of the Group Cardiologist Milind Y. Desai, they tested a Polar H7 chest strap against a Clinical ECG device. They found that the 3 lead ECG is more accurate than the Polar H7 chest strap.
- According to the paper, for activities with little movements and on a thread mill with speeds up to 14.48 km/h, the 3 lead ECG is considered as the gold standard for HR measurement.
- We do not know of any data for the Polar H10 which uses the protocol of the Milind Y. Desai from Cleveland Clinic Ohio.
- We do not know of any data for the Polar H7 which uses the protocol of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sports in Magglingen.
- Postdoctoral researcher Rob ter Horst, PhD. at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM), which is also author of the Youtube Channel “The Quantitative Scientist” reviewed the paper of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sports in Magglingen:
- He ignored the papers of the group of cardiologist Milind Y. Desai from Cleveland Clinic Ohio as well, and did not discuss them as well, and ignored their findings.
- For a complete list of all the data for the different studies, we need three tables: