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

How fast does your heart beat? It’s a tough question to answer, because our heart rate changes all the time depending on what we’re doing and how our body is behaving. However, [Ludwin] noted that ...

The rhythmic beating of your heart tells a more complex story than most realize. While standard health assessments typically focus on heart rate, the subtle variations between individual heartbeats ...

These days, it may seem like there’s a million different data points that you’re supposed to keep track of—hello, steps, sleep, and recovery scores!—and it’s difficult to know which ones are worth ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) is the variation in the time between two consecutive heartbeats over a specific period. Doctors may use HRV as an indicator for certain aspects of a person’s health, ...

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 ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) measures the fluctuations in time between heartbeats. While it isn’t a health metric you need to overthink, HRV is an indicator of how well the body can adapt to and ...

Unlike your resting heart rate, which you can take with nothing more than a stopwatch and a finger to your pulse, tracking your heart rate variability (HRV) is more complicated. While it used to ...