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The system can stream the data into an EHR, mobile app, cloud portal or integrated monitoring system.
The latest feature can now be combined with Samsung's cuffless blood pressure monitoring feature, which got approval in South Korea a few weeks ago.
The daily-use digital intervention yielded "clinically meaningful" improvement in blood pressure among 172 users.
Partner AliveCor also got a mysterious new FDA clearance.
Comorbid patients with hypertension and diabetes saw an average blood pressure drop of 11.2/5.2 mm Hg.
The HeartGuide watch uses a flexible synthetic band to inflate and maintain its shape to comfortably take an oscillometric wrist blood pressure on the fly.
A patent application filed by Apple, for a (possibly Bluetooth-connected) wearable blood pressure monitor, became public last week and was brought to light by The Verge.
In the past checking your blood pressure generally meant a trip to the doctor's office—or at least a pharmacy.
A recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a better predictor of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality than just monitoring blood pressure in the clinic.
Samsung’s latest phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9+, will incorporate a new digital health app that will track users' blood pressure and stress level while helping researchers collect data.