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• Following her Apple Watch "blaring that my resting heart rate was elevated and also that I had gone into Afib," she says she dumped the electric bike and went to an emergency room.
• Peloton's Jessie Malone is running a marathon to mark one year since her Apple Watch saved her life by revealing a heart condition she was completely unaware she had.
• Her heart rate while she was cycling had risen to 160 beats per minute, but she says she hadn't felt anything other than a little nausea.
• Doctors wanted to restart her heart with a defibrillator, but the necessary medication to first stop her heart did not work.
• Atrial fibrillation is an irregular and highly elevated heart rhythm, which the Apple Watch has been able to detect since the Apple Watch Series 4 was introduced in 2018.William Gallagher has 30 years of experience between the BBC and AppleInsider discussing Apple technology.
• Malone says that she had no underlying condition, and there is no genetic predisposition toward heart issues.