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Home detection of Parkinson's disease with smartwatch

www.nature.com Using a smartwatch and smartphone to assess early Parkinson’s disease in the WATCH-PD study - npj Parkinson's Disease

Digital health technologies can provide continuous monitoring and objective, real-world measures of Parkinson’s disease (PD), but have primarily been evaluated in small, single-site studies. In this 12-month, multicenter observational study, we evaluated whether a smartwatch and smartphone applicati...

Inspired by the other post about STEMI and smartwatch. Still early results, but they found patients with Parkinson's had smaller arm swings as measured by the smartwatch compared to controls.

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