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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.