A brand new, 7-year examine goals to scale back blood thinner medicine use and decrease the chance of AFib with the assistance of the Apple Watch.

The examine has lately obtained a funding of $37 from the Nationwide Coronary heart, Lung and Blood Institute and can deal with reducing dependency on blood thinners, which isn’t solely costly however can result in issues resembling bleeding and extra. AFib, or atrial fibrillation is a situation that plagues the US, with 2.5 million to five million residents affected by it.

As a part of the partnership between the Northwestern Drugs and the American Coronary heart Affiliation, the examine makes an attempt to make use of Apple Watch to observe for attainable AFib, because of built-in expertise such because the ECG app and heart-related notifications.

Apple is alleged to be donating the {hardware} and making apps for examine use, together with a customized algorithm to test coronary heart rhythms to see in the event that they’re unusually excessive.