Measuring Heart Rate Accurately in Patients With Parkinson Disease During Intense Exercise: Usability Study of Fitbit Charge 4.
Giulia ColonnaJocelyn HoyeBart de LaatGelsina StanleyAlaaddin IbrahimySule TinazEvan D MorrisPublished in: JMIR biomedical engineering (2023)
The performance of Fitbit Charge 4 is comparable to Polar H10 for assessing exercise intensity in a cohort of patients with PD (mean bias 3.98 bpm). The device could be considered a reasonable surrogate for more cumbersome chest-worn devices in future studies of clinical cohorts.