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ICT&health July 7, 2023
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed an inexpensive and accurate method for measuring blood pressure with a smartphone. All it takes is a simple clip.
The Problem
Blood pressure is one of the basic parameters for assessing the health of the cardiovascular system, including diagnosing hypertension – a disease that kills 9.4 million people every year, according to WHO data. The challenge is that only a fraction of patients see a doctor for preventive research, and professional devices for taking measurements at home are relatively expensive.
Now that more than 86% of the world’s population owns a smartphone, it has become one of the most accessible devices that can be used to measure health parameters. One...
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