BHF Live & Ticking May 2024 - Can wearable devices improve my heart health?

Our online series of Live & Ticking webinars keep you updated with the latest British Heart Foundation (BHF) funded science taking place across the UK.
In this edition, we discover whether self-monitoring using wearable devices can be a helpful tool to improve heart health and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Event speakers:
Claire Sand - BHF Director of Research Engagement hosts and guides us through this webinar by introducing some of the BHF-funded research into wearable digital devices and posing viewers’ questions to our panel of experts.
Kevin McGovern-Ims - BHF supporter talks about being diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy after collapsing while playing football, having an ICD fitted, and how he feels less anxious about his condition by using a wearable fitness device to monitor his exercise and track his heart rate.
Rob Underwood - BHF Senior Heart Story Officer helps to navigate through Kevin’s story.
Professor Mark Hamer - Professor of Sport and Exercise Medicine at University College London discusses his BHF-funded research into leading a global study involving 72,000 people to understand how activity levels, sitting time and sleep influence our risk of heart and circulatory disease.
Sindy Jodar - BHF Senior Cardiac Nurse helps to answer viewers’ clinical questions.
All information in this video was correct at time of recording.
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