Evangelia AthanasiouiMotions Product Management AssistantAugust 31st, 2021 Monitoring Heart Rate Variability (HRV) allows for exploring human activity through the heart, which can help us gain insight into health issues and behaviors. For example, fatigue and stress are daily characteristics that we can obtain by measuring HRV. In general, low HRV data can indicate fatigue, overtraining, cardiovascular… Continue reading Heart Rate Variability: From Standard ECG Monitors to Wearables
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Which heart rate monitor should you get
The HRV Health apps only work with H9 and H10 Polar heart rate monitors: which one should you get? The Polar H9 and H10 heart rate monitors are the only commercially available consumer devices that provide data that is accurate enough to measure heart rate variability. The H10 costs is almost 50% more than the… Continue reading Which heart rate monitor should you get
Improving the numbers
Roy is HRV Health’s founder. His RMSSD is between 100 and 120, and his RHR is usually around 40. Those are the metrics of an athlete in his twenties. Roy is . “Six years ago I was in deep trouble. My SRRS score was 394.” He says. “There was an 80% chance of having a… Continue reading Improving the numbers
Understanding the numbers
Getting familiar with all the metrics that HRV Health produces can seem daunting at first. What is good? What is bad? What should you be looking for? This article will answer those questions. RMSSD is the measure of heart rate variability (HRV). The higher the number, the better. A good number is age and gender… Continue reading Understanding the numbers
Measuring HRV
HRV results vary according to how and when they are measured. The “gold standard” for clinical HRV assessment is the 24 h HRV recording[1]An Overview of HRV Metrics and Norms with the subject linked to an ECG machine in a strictly controlled environment. These recordings achieve greater predictive power than short-term measurements. Although the mathematical formulas are the same,… Continue reading Measuring HRV
HRV and risk of severe COVID-19
A recent long term study[1]Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021 from the CDC established that of the 540,667 of patients who were hospitalised, 94.9% had at least one underlying condition. Essential hypertension (50.4%), disorders of lipid metabolism (49.4%), and obesity (33.0%) were the most common. In a earlier… Continue reading HRV and risk of severe COVID-19
Using the Android app for the first time
The Android app is an integral part of the HRV Health platform. The app collects the interbeat interval (IBI) data from the Polar H10 heart rate monitor (HRM), and loads that data onto the platform. The platform and the app use the HRM device ID as the mechanism to uniquely identify the user’s data. So,… Continue reading Using the Android app for the first time
Using the iOS app for the first time
The iOS app is an integral part of the HRV Health platform. The app collects the interbeat interval (IBI) data from the Polar H10 heart rate monitor (HRM), and loads that data onto the HRV Health Platform. The platform and the app use the HRM device ID as the mechanism to uniquely identify the user’s… Continue reading Using the iOS app for the first time
The benefits of measuring Heart Rate Variability
Heart rate variability gives users a daily measure of their health status. It also provides the elite athlete with a powerful metric of how their body is responding to training. A health heart is not a metronome[1]An Overview of Heart Rate Variability Metrics and Norms, even when the pulse rate is constant. The interval between… Continue reading The benefits of measuring Heart Rate Variability
COVID-19 is here for the long term
In 2000 Philip Morris in the Czech Republic commissioned a report that confirmed that smoking has a positive benefit on the cost of healthcare. The study found that smoking kills before other morbidities that require expensive treatment take hold, so saving the financial burden on the taxpayer[1]Public Finance Balance of Smoking in the Czech Republic.… Continue reading COVID-19 is here for the long term