One of the most interesting and undoubtedly useful features of smartwatches is being able to follow our health: hours of sleep, heart rate and blood oxygen are some of the things that smartwatches can monitor, in addition to simply showing us notifications and allowing us to use applications independently of the mobile.
Samsung is working on adding even more health features to the Galaxy Watch. One of them is the ability to measure blood sugar, something with which the South Korean company would advance the Apple Watch in terms of health. Now, Galaxy watches could start shipping soon detect the risk of heart attack and other diseasesusing an index called “AGE”.
Galaxy Watch could help predict risk of heart attack, diabetes and stroke using AGE index
Advanced glycation end product, or “AGE” (in Spanish, Advanced Glycation End Products), is a biological index or marker related to health and metabolism. There are currently devices that, through a non-invasive process by cutaneous autoflorescence, can measure the level of AGE. The result provides a prediction of cardiovascular risk.
The AGE level or index can help detect signs of risk of heart attack, stroke and even diabetesSamsung is reportedly working with medical expert Diagnoptics to bring the feature to its smartwatches, starting with the new Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch 7 Ultra.
In fact, Android Authority managed to enable the feature called “AGE Index” in a recent version of the app. Samsung Health. The app image reveals that it is an experimental feature, part of the “Labs” section of Samsung Health.
Image: Android Authority
According to Diagnoptics, AGE level plays an important role in the development of age-related and aging-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes, kidney failure and cardiovascular diseases. In general, humans accumulate more levels of AGEs as they age, but maintaining exercise and physical activity routines helps reduce levels, according to Diagnoptics.
It’s believed that this feature could come to the Galaxy Watch 7, however, and as has happened with some previous health features on Samsung smartwatches (such as blood pressure monitoring), this type of feature typically requires approval from local regulators before it becomes available. So even if Samsung announces this feature as part of the Galaxy Watch 7 news, it may be a while before it’s available to users.
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