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Re: Study: Garmin smartwatch measures certain health metric with large margins of error

NotebookCHECK - Notebook Forum - Index [Unofficial] February 20, 2026
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Important distinction: wrist-based HRV relies on photoplethysmography (PPG), which estimates inter-beat intervals from blood flow rather than directly measuring cardiac electrical activity like ECG. That inevitably introduces more noise and wider margi...

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