For health items whether BP or weight, respiration, O2, trends and lots of aggregate data prevail. Frequency of collection just means more data.
(Barring of course extreme cases like hypotension or radically low O2 that need immediate care)
I like the data stream of CGM, nutritionally extremely educational and life changing for the better.
Expect next year a CKM, Continuous Ketone Monitor... already available outside the US, including Canada. Hope to grab some of those...
Not meaning to go off topic too much, the interesting issue to me is “who owns the data”.
Not just on this issue of BP monitoring. But, the information being collected on us by the cornucopia of electronic devices and gadgets that dominate modern life.
Very few it seems are totally benign and completely self contained. Too many collect and share with sources largely unknown to us information that they observe or process.
Continuously worrying about anything and everything is more debilitating to your health than most other factors you can control.
JMO
These little devices are just anxiety inducement machines. Filling the uneducated with dread and fear every time their individual vital signs deviate from the “laboratory norm”.
We need a few good old-fashioned doctors (almost extinct now) to go around and hit people in the head with their reflex hammers and remind people to go live and stop worrying. There are people who need such monitoring and for them it is beneficial. For the vast majority, they do not.
It has been suggested to me by medical professionals that the BP should be checked multiple times a day. Nope, I check it 2 or 3 times a week. If I relax for 10-15 minutes and it is normal (as defined by me, not the desired “normal” that keeps creeping down) I’m good. I noticed it was creeping up so I got back to walking 3-4 times a week. Seems to do the trick.
I told them, I’m satisfied and I am NOT going to become obsessed with it.
Algorithmic bias: Datasets dominated by certain demographics may train models that systematically misinterpret signals in other populations. Yeah, but Master told me to breath in through my nose and out my mouth, deeply, twice...then reset.