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//Health Care is Individual//
Health assessments are evolving and with wearable technology, getting the bigger picture about our health stats has never been easier. One of the most common indications of health in the body is resting heart rate. It varies from person to person and typically resides between 60bpm to 100bpm but athletes and other healthy bodies will have lower resting heart rates. While it’s great to aim for a healthy resting heart rate, it’s worth noting that this metric is not indicative of overall health. In fact, due to the body specific conditions that influence this value, it’s hard to infer anything by simply checking a resting heart.//Useful Health Metrics//
Progress in medical practices now suggest that recording of resting heart rate gives very little information when comparing this against a general number. There are multiple reasons why this approach is flawed and it’s recommended that analysis be done over a longer time period to monitor heart fluctuations. When we get sick, our bodies react differently and our heart rates can often show this. However, knowing what the outlying reading is in relation to your own body is hard to deduce simply from an initial static reading. It’s expected that if you’re feeling under the weather, the resting heart rate will alter and be higher in most cases. Yet, how is it possible to detect this abnormality without knowing the normal resting rate normally observed in the patient?//More Data for Assessment//
Health tracking is becoming an important part of our lives and many people are investing in health trackers that will record your heart rate. Aside from data privacy concerns, giving doctors access to such data will allow multiple averages to be taken to determine the current state of the body. If elevations of resting heart rate are determined, it could be precursor to illness settling in the body of the patient. Health trackers do a bit more than tracking heart rate too, they also track sleep. If you’ve ever assessed your body’s performance with minimal sleep there are astounding results that reveal major losses when the body is sleep deprived.//Gaining Benefits//
I think that with the age of integrated technologies becoming a huge data mining operation of our lives, it’s important to at least extract some of this information for our own benefit. Sharing data with health professionals may be the start of getting better health assessments where more information is available via technology channels but the question still remains as to how accurate and reliable such tracking devices are. Invalid data is highly possible depending on the hardware used and the way it is worn. Sources https://www.livescience.com/resting-heart-rate-varies-widely.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate
Originally posted here: https://steemit.com/science/@higgs/resting-heart-rates-and-health-assessments
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