Yea...Ikaria...the Island of Longevity....where people forget to die
The Cook Book..
Posted on 05/26/2023 11:06:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
“... hypertension caused or contributed to over 691,000 deaths in the US...”
Everyone is not going to die?
They’ll just die more slowly.......................
Cool ... this would be good for Hubs, whose blood pressure spikes in the doctor’s office
I wear a watch similar to the Apple iWatch that monitors heart rate and blood oxygen. If I could monitor BP THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC!.................
Follow the instructions on this chart https://images.template.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19105747/Blood-Pressure-Range-Chart.jpg
My BP is in the green...working out with heavy weights twice a week...not too shabby for 81.
Good for you!
Interesting...thanks for posting.
I use an Omron bicep cuff at home and an Omron portable wrist cuff when I’m out. I.usually take three measurements ten minutes apart and get readings 10% to 15% apart. I’ve also calibrated the portable cuff to the upper arm cuff and find the portable consistently differs from the upper arm cuff by 6%. Given there variations I wonder how I would. Ali rate this new device to a cuff instrument.
It sounds promising, but I wonder about accuracy.
That’s what I have found.
Those automatic BP machines in medical facilities read high almost every time.
The home wrist devices do the same.
Time to implant a transducer and a data link to provide 24/7 data.
[Just taking BP at rest has always seemed lame to me]
I have the wrist cuff too. It sucks so bad I quit using it. Plus it eats batteries like crazy................
Yea...Ikaria...the Island of Longevity....where people forget to die
The Cook Book..
“...how I would calibrate this new device”
Damn lousy auto-correct. Hopefully AI does something useful like ending terrible corrections.
Why?? That sort of 24/7 surveillance would drive anyone nuts. Every little blip up or down will eventually cause anxiety and worry. Not worth it. I know I’ve got high BP and I medicate for it, every 6 months my dr tells me I have high bp.
Comparing blood pressure measurements between a photoplethysmography-based and a standard cuff-based manometry device
30 September 2020
By Dean Nachman, Yftach Gepner, Arik Eisenkraft
People who are not even willing to do something so easy as taking their blood pressure several times a day with an over the counter Walgreen's BP cuff system are also likely the ones who will not lose weight or exercise or reduce salt in their diet.
In other words, they can't be bothered and the rest of us will absorb the costs of their hospitalization in higher premiums when they eventually stroke out.
Thank you!
Looks like they are very accurate...................
My cheap Chinese watch does this, same sort of technology. Not accurate as to absolute level in this implementation, but reliably indicates significant excursions from normal (for wearer) range.
This is so cool! I would drop some coin for one of these.
It’s worth keeping an eye on!
It sounds like this device requires re-defining blood pressure. Systolic is the cuff pressure required to stop blood flow in a particular vessel. Duastolic is the cuff pressure when releasing pressure that blood starts to flow again. If this little cutie doesn’t actually stop flow then it’s measuring something else.
And normal muscle tension effects the “stop flow” part of the formula. One of my units is an Omron that can take three consecutive readings then either average them or give the last one. In my case it takes the first two cycles to soften up the muscles enough to create a meaningful reading. Not quite seeing how shooting a beam thru my arm would do more than give me a tan line?
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