{"id":373,"date":"2024-05-02T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:06:47","slug":"apple-watch-afib-feature-gets-new-fda-seal-of-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/apple-watch-afib-feature-gets-new-fda-seal-of-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch AFib feature gets new FDA seal of approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Apple-Watch-AFib-feature.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Watch<\/a> AFib feature \u2013 which detects abnormal heartbeat patterns indicative of atrial fibrillation \u2013 has received a new tick of approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Doctors have already credited the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health<\/a> feature with saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>While the FDA had previously granted <em>clearance<\/em> for AFib detection, that was a limited endorsement \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"apple-health,apple-watch\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"946406\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/05\/02\/apple-watch-afib-feature-fda\/#more-946406\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple Watch AFib feature \u2013 which detects abnormal heartbeat patterns indicative of atrial fibrillation \u2013 has received ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}