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    Should Your Watch Monitor Your Heart?

    Apple’s new watch can screen for heart problems. But doctors are increasingly worried about the dangers of testing healthy people for disease.
    by Alexis C. Madrigal Sep 13, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP

    The new Apple Watch, unveiled yesterday in Cupertino, California, possesses a new and startling capability: It can monitor the electrical pulses that drive the heart’s activity, and proactively alert users who it has determined might have a condition called atrial fibrillation. The FDA has voiced its approval, Apple said, and the new product goes on sale this fall.

    Reaction was predictably positive: Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of heart arrhythmia in the United States, and . The president of the American Heart Association graced the stage . “It won’t catch every instance of [atrial fibrillation], but we believe this is going to help a lot of people who didn’t otherwise know they had an issue,” said Apple COO Jeff Williams onstage of the feature, which is opt-in.

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