Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

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The strategy of Polar: we only support the validation of the Polar H10 chest strap in a scientific paper but not PPG watches?

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Last Updated on December 9, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

This Polar H10 chest strap validation paper was partly funded by Polar:

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

One of the rare scientists who studies the accuracy of PPG watches is Rob ter Horst on his YouTube channel. Others are the group of cardiologist Milind Desai from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio:

Best scientific papers of the year 2023 about consumer grade heart rate monitors – why did we not find those?

We personally have learned a lot from the work of the group of Milind Desai about PPG watches. Milind Desai’s group seem not to continue to study PPG watches systematically and continously, but only Rob ter Horst on his YouTube channel.