That’s when the 73-year-old Connecticut resident called an ambulance and, upon arrival at the hospital, doctors were able to diagnosis her increasingly rapid heartbeat.<\/p>
“When I got to the hospital, they did a series of tests and found that I had blood clots in both lungs,” Lauder told CNN<\/a>. “My heart had enlarged to about 65 percent beyond its [normal] capacity.”<\/p> Lauder said that without her FitBit to track her heart rate, she isn’t sure if she would have been made aware of the symptoms as soon as she was.<\/p> “If I didn’t have a Fitbit on my wrist, I would never have known that my heart rate was getting dangerously high,” she told UConn Today<\/a>. “And I might not be here to tell my story.”<\/p> Dr. JuYong Lee, director of vascular and endovascular medicine at UConn Health Calhoun Cardiology Center, treated Lauder and administered a medicine that made the clots disappear within 24 hours. He told CNN that the fitness tracker likely helped save her life.<\/p> “I think the Fitbit actually helped her decide whether or not this was a serious condition at that time,” Lee told CNN. “This condition is very critical, and she may have actually died if she had not sought medical attention.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Health trackers seem to be all the rage these days. But could the wearable technology be more than just a fitness fad? Patricia Lauder thinks so and credits her FitBit with saving her life. A few months back, Lauder, a recent retiree, wasn’t feeling well. She suspected that her sinus infection may have morphed into Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":18723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":2668,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[4],"vertical":[8,33,34],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-all","vertical-seniors","vertical-senior-care-advice-tips","vertical-senior-health-safety","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2017-04-11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.kinsights.com\/content\/images\/rachelsmurphy-201744111644490944.jpg\")