Becker's Healthcare September 10, 2025
The new Apple Watch will include “powerful” new features such as hypertension notifications and sleep scores to keep wearers healthy, the tech giant said.
For hypertension, the Apple Watch Series 11 will work passively in the background to review wearers’ heart sensor data from the past 30 days to determine how their blood vessels respond to heartbeats. The tech company trained the feature with advanced machine learning using studies of over 10,000 participants, then validated it with clinical research of over 2,000 people.
Apple said it is expected to notify over 1 million people of undiagnosed hypertension within the first year. The feature will be available in the U.S. this month, with FDA clearance expected soon.
“Hypertension is the...
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