A few of the most important insights are heart rate variability (HRV), which describes the difference in time between the ...

Fitness trackers and smart watches are widely popular wearable devices that measure several types of health metrics, ...

A lower resting heart rate indicates an efficient heart and a higher level of parasympathetic activity. When you’re at rest, your nervous system ideally minimizes sympathetic activity, so you’re ...

Here’s what this health metric really indicates, according to cardiologists. Fact checked by Isaac Winter Reviewed by Vivek Cherian, MD Heart rate variability (HRV) is the difference in the timing ...

Data from a team of Dutch researchers presented this weekend at the Endocrinology Society’s annual meeting in Chicago demonstrated how vital monitoring wearables could identify Type 1 diabetes ...

The Garmin HRM-Fit is a heart rate monitor made for women, or at least anyone who would wear a sports bra while exercising. Where other heart rate monitor straps use an elastic band and a metal popper ...

Heart rate variability during sleep can predict stroke, depression or cognitive dysfunction years in advance, according to new research presented at the European Academy of Neurology Congress. The ...