Evolving the watch from fitness tool to health device “wasn’t the original intent,” says Apple COO Jeff Williams. “The reality is, we put the heart rate sensor on the watch initially just to calculate calorie burn, and then this move towards helping people discover heart issues really happened organically."
With the wearables market growing and Apple selling more than any other brand, the announcement about the new health features was cheered by some and questioned by others. Should low-risk patients have the ability to self-test? Won’t hypochondriacs have a field day? Will this lead to false positives and unnecessary treatment and testing? Maybe. But big picture, providing people—women in particular—with more information about their bodies is empowering and may spur awareness and conversations that could be life-changing, even life-saving.
Heart disease is still often seen as a man’s disease, when in fact it’s the number one killer of women, says Roshini Rajapaksa, MD (“Dr. Raj”), Health’s medical editor and associate professor of medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. And young (under 55) women who report heart attack symptoms are more likely to have them dismissed as something else, according to one recent Yale study. Another study showed that when some patients are having symptoms, they wait to seek help for fear of initiating a false alarm. Part of the problem may be that women experience symptoms beyond the expected chest pain, such as indigestion and jaw pain.
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