Super low-cost smartphone attachment brings bloodpressure monitoring to your fingertips ucsandiego SciReports
"We've created an inexpensive solution to lower the barrier to blood pressure monitoring," said study first author Yinan Xuan, an electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student at UC San Diego.
Prototype of the blood pressure monitoring clip. The user presses on the clip and a custom smartphone app guides the user on how hard and long to press during the measurement. Credit: Digital Health Lab / UC San Diegoblood pressure monitorTo measure blood pressure, the user simply presses on the clip with a fingertip. A custom smartphone app guides the user on how hard and long to press during the measurement.
The researchers tested the clip on 24 volunteers from the UC San Diego Medical Center. Results were comparable to those taken by a blood pressure cuff. Prototype of the blood pressure monitoring clip. The user presses on the clip and a custom smartphone app guides the user on how hard and long to press during the measurement. Credit: Digital Health Lab / UC San Diego
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