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While some people on this board will swear by their Apple Watch data, my three year experience with it has been mediocre. A couple of years ago it picked up afib when I did a random EKG. I have elected the weekly report of afib options and it will indicate afib anywhere from 7% to 25% of the time. My Mayo cardiologist thinks it’s confusing PACs (multiple Holter Monitors have had my load at 10-12%) with afib and its algorithm does something funky with the data. Electing the Apple Watch option for identifying an irregular heartbeat in real time has never alerted to anything. I wear it to monitor my heart rate on my runs and get little use out of it otherwise.

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@jefftalley I've had same experience. Watch says afib or "inconclusive"; my doc says it's PACs (I'm at 9% burden per Zio monitor). Watch is helpful to monitor heart rate as you noted. I think it's pretty accurate on oxygen level and to monitor fitness (VO2) and exercise effort level (METS). I read somewhere that there are apps that read Apple Watch data and refine it to pick up PACs, PVCs vs. afib. I haven't looked into those.