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What causes an ecg pulse rate and a pulse rate measure on the wrist to be different?
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Heart rate: Did you ever see a kind of electronic device that was 100% reliable? There are lots of reasons why the sensors in a device to measure pulse rate could be off.
Answered 4/5/2013
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