Eric Topol April 7, 2023
My test drive of a promising device
For more than a decade there’s been a relentless effort to develop and validate a continuous (or more precisely continual), non-invasive, cuff-less, accurate, blood pressure device—a holy grail in sensor technology. I’ve been testing one by Aktiia this week (my results from yesterday below), which is not yet available in the United States, and have made multiple side-by-side comparisons to an Omron standard cuff and the results have correlated well. I don’t have hypertension and by no means am I ready to say this device is ready for prime time, but it has many useful and distinctive features.
It’s a very lightweight bracelet that has an optical sensor which, after...
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