[HN Gopher] Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease sympt...
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Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease symptoms: study
Author : gmays
Score : 58 points
Date : 2021-02-04 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| r-w wrote:
| At this point, what can't Apple Watch do? "Breaking News: Hiring
| Apple to Stare at your Arm 24/7 Tells Them All Your Diseases"
| mcavoybn wrote:
| I'm sorry but when the solution to your research paper is
| consumer technology sold by the company you work for, you are
| just advertising not innovating. Nothing about the apple watch
| itself is particularly useful for this, its just the fact that it
| goes on your wrist and has an accelerometer plugged into a
| computer with networking capabilities. (Wow, an accelerometer
| attached to your wrist can tell if you have tremors! Who knew?!?)
| The other 90% of the functionality of the watch is totally
| unnecessary. If apple actually cared they would create a new
| device for this particular use case.
| pwinnski wrote:
| Apple has an opt-in Research app, and has built relationships
| with a number of orgs in the US doing medical research, and has
| added additional sensors based on feedback from those orgs.
|
| There is quite a bit special about the Apple Watch itself well
| beyond the accelerometer, in software, in hardware, and in the
| work required to maintain privacy while sharing collective
| information with organizations devoted to researching diseases.
| sradman wrote:
| The paper _Smartwatch inertial sensors continuously monitor real-
| world motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease_ [1]:
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| > We developed the Motor fluctuations Monitor for Parkinson's
| Disease (MM4PD), an ambulatory monitoring system that used
| smartwatch inertial sensors to continuously track fluctuations in
| resting tremor and dyskinesia.
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| > MM4PD captured symptom changes in response to treatment that
| matched the clinician's expectations in 94% of evaluated
| subjects. In the remaining 6% of cases, symptom data from MM4PD
| identified opportunities to make improvements in pharmacologic
| strategy.
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| [1] https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/579/eabd7865
| spike021 wrote:
| As someone with Essential Tremor, I wonder if this could be used
| along with the other sensors in the watch to help figure out when
| the tremor seems exacerbated or less severe.
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| ece wrote:
| The article mentions: "The paper also suggests the tool helped
| pinpoint people who slipped on medication adherence, as well as
| cases in which a person might benefit from a modified
| medication regimen."
| spike021 wrote:
| I'm not sure that quote is relevant to ET, though, since I'd
| wager most who have ET do not take medication for it. Well,
| that's anecdotal; I don't take anything for it.
| ece wrote:
| I don't know much about ET, but Parkinson's medication
| increases dosage based on worsening symptoms, so this seems
| pretty helpful in keeping symptoms and medication in check.
| Alex3917 wrote:
| If akathisia from SSRIs is supposedly associated with adolescent
| mass shootings, I wonder if Apple Watch can predict this also.
| E.g.:
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| https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3513220/
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