I noticed recently a new setting in Apple Health under Health Details the option to add/answer the question "Medications That Affect Heart Rate", so apparently when you select this Apple changes how it evaluates your health, but it tells you in what ways. Does this affect the VO2 score? Does it impact my workouts and my scores? I noticed my VO2 dropped by 10 points all of a sudden and was trying to track down the cause. Thanks.
Go to the watch app on iPhone. Then Health. Then Health Details. Scroll down to medications affecting heart rate. Select edit at top of screen and selectable options are there. I take bisoprolol which is a beta-blocker reducing heart rate but had to put no as otherwise my VO2 Max level drops ridiculously. I had open heart surgery 27/02/2020 and used the iwatch well before this option became available. Its only when apple did an update around October that all the faulty results started.
Personally, I don't want Apple to be my Doctor, simply provide the tools to work with my Cardiologist, he is the one that should suggest I turn this feature on/off. I just found this book, which validates my path since I was 1st diagnosed with AFIB in 2011 and others may find it useful. I refused to accept that there is nothing I could do to change my AFIB condition and was on the bleeding edge of techniques to improve my health as I age. Just like I have been on the bleeding edge of Apple Technology my entire career. What is interesting is I consider myself an amateur athlete and I wasn't going to give up my fitness regardless of my age or society's definition. The biggest factors in this book for me are sleep and hydration, along with a magnesium supplement, which I initially tried, but didn't like taking horse pills and stopped. This books suggested a chewable dose taken over the day, duh! Just published in in 2020, and unlike Apple that wants to put you in a box, this book has detailed medical cases, which reenforces everyone is unique, and what works for one individual is not going to work for someone else. I am living proof that you just don't have to live with AFIB, you can recover, and it's not an elderly condition, young athletes suffer from AFIB as well.
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Did you have a technical VO2 max measurement? A proper one to compare?
No edit options on my series 6, same on the iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14.3, watchOS 7.2.
Glad that you found the setting after my explanation of where it is.
I should add that my BP after a year of BP meds is 110/70. I’m in good health.
I am amazed how Apple does not respond!
i have same issue, after heart valve replacement at age 55
I don’t know what to make of it. I do have raised BP and I have been rowing this year and improving my VO2 max. I set the BP meds setting today and dropped from the middle of above average to just above poor. If it is correct I need to know but it was very demoralising! I turned it off and removed the results for now. I want to finish the year thinking I improved &
on the old calculations I did
Next year maybe start again with the low value
Not helpful at all. If you don't know, just say you don't know. If the app is incapable of working with the meds, then say that.
Go to settings, health, health details, click edit and change the value for medicines that affect heart rate.
Beta Blockers and Exercise Tracking
