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<br>Then the 15-second countdown begins and you are performed -- easy and painless. I acquired a 95% on my first read, which was lower than what I'm used to from my pulse oximeter. Anything above 90% is mostly thought-about by clinicians to be inside a healthy vary, but typically, higher is best. I examined it a few more instances and received barely totally different outcomes within a few percentage factors relying on whether I was fully still and silent through the check, the place I had the watch positioned on my wrist and the way tight the strap was. There are many factors that may have an effect on a studying, equivalent to skin temperature or the position of the sensors on the body. Side-by-facet with my pulse oximeter, the Apple Watch was typically off by about one or two points, but typically spot on. What was extra fascinating to me was the SpO2 data that collected over time in the Health app .<br>

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