Researchers have developed a new metric using data already collected by your smartwatch that can assess cardiovascular fitness, potentially providing an early warning sign for heart disease risk.

Walking 10,000 steps a day is a popular health goal, but researchers have introduced a new, potentially more powerful metric: daily heart rate per step (DHRPS). In a new study published by researchers ...

The time it takes the heart to return to its baseline rhythm after exercise can predict a host of cardiovascular or metabolic ...

Zoe asks a group of children to perform a heart rate experiment, taking their own pulses. They record their resting heart rate, their heart rate after exercise and how quickly it slows down over ...

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better. By Matt Richtel Many people use a smartwatch to monitor their cardiovascular ...

Dr Buckley’s team fits everyone with a pedometer, heart rate monitor and a blood glucose monitor recording a normal sitting day, and then a day where they are all asked to stand at their desks.

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