For the last 3 years, my health has become very important to me, as I suffered a mild heart attack 7 years ago. It took me a while to get to the point where I didn’t want to be a statistic or be on medication for the rest of my life. Since then I have had a wearable, to track my heart rate, my exercise routine and just my everyday health. LifeQ has taken wearable watches to a new level of tracking your heart rate, fitness, sleep, and general activity. When I contracted Covid-19, my wearable sent out a warning signal that everything wasn’t quite right, as my heart rate and sleep pattern changed from my normal everyday average levels. My test result came back positive and if it wasn’t for the early warning given, I would have put my own life at risk as well everyone I came into contact with.
I am very grateful to have become a part of the LifeQ story and I am excited for the journey ahead!! It will surely be put to good use. I really have been enjoying my time at LifeQ, the people are friendly, supportive, and easy to get along with; the work is engaging and relevant to the professional and academic path I intend to walk at the intersection of healthcare and machine learning. I feel like there are numerous interesting avenues LifeQ is tapping into in this space and I am keen to see how far we take them.
My husband and I have been curious about the high heart rates that my wearable measured for me during sleep. I am not specifically fit, but it did not line up with my general physical condition and other measurements of my health, which showed a very normal to even low blood pressure and no values outside the reference ranges. After having my high resting heart rate dismissed as benign by several general practitioners, we made an appointment to see a cardiologist. I was diagnosed with an atrial septal defect, which is a heart condition that can be surgically fixed. I had a 15mm hole connecting the two halves of my heart. I had this fixed surgically and my resting heart rate decreased by nearly 15 beats per minute. According to published studies, this intervention can contribute as much as a 20 year increase in my overall life expectancy.
For the last 3 years, my health has become very important to me, as I suffered a mild heart attack 7 years ago. It took me a while to get to the point where I didn’t want to be a statistic or be on medication for the rest of my life. Since then I have had a wearable, to track my heart rate, my exercise routine and just my everyday health. LifeQ has taken wearable watches to a new level of tracking your heart rate, fitness, sleep, and general activity. When I contracted Covid-19, my wearable sent out a warning signal that everything wasn’t quite right, as my heart rate and sleep pattern changed from my normal everyday average levels. My test result came back positive and if it wasn’t for the early warning given, I would have put my own life at risk as well everyone I came into contact with.
