Early identification of abnormal heart rate and blood pressure is crucial to prevent maternal deaths from postpartum haemorrhage and maternal sepsis.
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Physical activity and new motherhood can be hard to navigate, but physiological feedback and self-compassion can help inform decisions about when and how to exercise.
Fitness information like resting heart rate collected by wearable devices can’t diagnose diseases, but it can signal when something is wrong. That can be enough to prompt a COVID-19 test.
Trying a new exercise routine? Strapping on a new wearable monitor? An expert in human physiology explains the ins and outs of your heart rate and why it’s a valuable number to understand.
Exercising at your maximal heart rate isn’t always effective. Training smarter, not harder, will make you fitter.
As health care grows more digital, an array of health apps promise to track steps, count heartbeats and look at moles. But without more FDA oversight, could we be shooting ourselves in the foot?
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Assistant Professor of Recreation & Leisure Studies, Brock University
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Associate Professor of Health and Sport Science, University of Dayton
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo
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Lecturer at the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology (BSc, PhD), Curtin University
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Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of The Fraser Valley
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Assistant Professor in Kinesiology, University of The Fraser Valley
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Post-doctoral research fellow, King's College London
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Lecturer, University of Sierra Leone
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Professor of Obstetrics at King’s College London and chair of the FIGO Preterm Birth Committee (2012-23)., King's College London