While a Fitbit isn't meant to be used as a medical device, the stories below prove that, as Mitesh Patel, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, says, "there's potential to use them in a clinical setting." In fact, doctors at Duke are already using mobile technology to help patients remotely relay blood pressure information to their doctors. Useful as they are in helping people get active, these wearable devices can potentially clue you in to way more about your health than your walking habits. (Get a flat belly in just 10 minutes a day with our reader-tested exercise plan!)īecause these monitors track your heart rate, they can potentially alert you to everything from pregnancy to scarier stuff, like heart problems. But tracking your steps isn't all it's good for. Chances are you have at least one friend, coworker, or cousin-or maybe it's you?-who's obsessed with her Fitbit and reaching that coveted 10,000-step mark every day.
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