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Super Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingertips
Researchers say the new blood pressure clip could help make regular blood pressure monitoring easy, affordable, and accessible to people in resource-poor communities.
Credit: Digital Health Lab/UC San Diego
An inexpensive plastic fingertip clip and custom smartphone app developed by University of California, San Diego researchers works with a smartphone's camera and flash to measure the user's blood pressure.
The goal is to make blood pressure monitoring more affordable and accessible.
The clip, which is placed over the smartphone's camera and flash, does not have to be calibrated to a cuff.
The smartphone app can measure the amount of pressure applied by the fingertip and the volume of blood moving in and out of the fingertip; it then converts this data into systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings using an algorithm.
From UC San Diego Today
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