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This is a huge improvement against regular blood presure monitors (which are heavy, and nonportable). If I remember well Lenovo smartwatches had a similar feat
by eb0la 7y ago
This is a huge improvement against regular blood presure monitors (which are heavy, and nonportable).
If I remember well Lenovo smartwatches had a similar feature but they needed calibration for this to work.
Omron has the advantage they've been building blood pressure monitors for years and they know how to make medical grade devices (looks there's no need to calibrate anything).
- zenlot 7y agoMost of the Samsung phones can measure blood pressure for the past few years and works in pretty much same accuracy as the heavy and non-portable ones.
- httpz 7y agoI've been using Samsung phones for years. It can measure heartrate and blood oxygen saturation but I'm pretty sure it doesn't measure blood pressure.
- serf 7y agothe note/galaxy 9/10s can read bloodpressure.[0] "Phones that can use their sensor: Galaxy S9 and S9+ Galaxy S10 and S10+ Galaxy Note9 Phones that need a Galaxy Watch Active or Galaxy Watch Active2: Note10, Note10+, and Note10+ 5G " [0]: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00082868/ https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00082868/
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- johnchristopher 7y ago> This is a huge improvement against regular blood presure monitors (which are heavy, and nonportable). Is the product reliable ? I am in the market for something like that but $500 for something that could just be an expensive gadget is hard to justify :/.
- akuji1993 7y agoThe reviews on the page suggest it's not quite up to a certain quality yet. It's an early adopter thing and probably will need some more iterations before it's viable for broader use.
- loeg 7y agohttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XM8XMO/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XM8XMO/ $25, reliable, 1.5 lbs shipped. I have this one (or a similar model by the same brand).
- consp 7y agoI have something similar in price but for my wrist and it is ballpark accurate (so up to about 5 off depending on many factors). But only when used as described on the correct wrist. Tested with my doctor and he showed the other wrist is highly inaccurate. Good enough for home testing but that is about it.
- loeg 7y agoThe device I linked is an upper arm cuff, not a wrist device (measuring at the wrist is less accurate either way).
- elric 7y agoThere are hundreds of portable blood pressure monitors. Many of which are wrist based devices not much bigger than this Omron device. And others which are basically just the size of an upper arm cuff, which is much more accurate than a wrist based device. I wouldn't say this is a huge win at all. For some reason it can't even store more than 100 measurements, which makes no sense for a fitness watch.
- reportgunner 7y agoCan you show an example of a blood pressure monitor that you are talking about ? I am not a doctor, but I've seen my grandma use a very portable one for a decade now. Edit: updated IANAD to I am not a doctor
- bamboozled 7y agoIANAD? Can we just use English ?
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- C1sc0cat 7y agoSomething like an Omron M6 is the sort of thing https://www.amazon.co.uk/Omron-M6-Comfort-Pressure-Monitors/dp/B00IIOI9QC/ref=asc_df_B00IIOI9QC/?tag=bingshoppinga-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=&hvpos=&hvnetw=o&hvrand=&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583451664107913&psc=1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Omron-M6-Comfort-Pressure-Monitors/...
- reportgunner 7y agoThis one is 10% of the weight and has been available for almost 2 years https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salter-Automatic-Irregular-Heartbeat-Hypertension/dp/B07DHKL2NZ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salter-Automatic-Irregular-Heartbea...
- loeg 7y agoBoth seem light and portable to me.
- jbdigriz 7y agoI have this. It's ok but you get wildly variable readings if you don't keep your forearm perfectly rested and flat on a surface. Even then it's going to vary a lot. Wrist based blood pressure readings are never going to be that precise unfortunately
- C1sc0cat 7y agoThey are in the UK the brand that is recommended by GP's and Omron is used in the NHS for clinics
- loeg 7y agoUh, regular blood pressure monitors are not heavy and are quite portable. They're just not wrist form-factor. I'm not sure what's compelling about having one strapped to your wrist.
- coldtea 7y ago>Uh, regular blood pressure monitors are not heavy and are quite portable. They're just not wrist form-factor. That's the whole point. The parent's point wasn't that you need a U-HAUL to carry them, but that they're a bulky added device you have to carry and operate specially. >I'm not sure what's compelling about having one strapped to your wrist. Isn't it obvious? That you always have it with you, it can take automatic measurements periodically without a fuss, it's on a device that also does 5-10 other things (time, notifications, heart rate, step-meter, etc), and you can just forget about it.
- subpixel 7y agoIf it works {{your first sentence}}.
- reaperducer 7y agowhich are heavy, and nonportable I have one that runs on AA batteries, is half the size of a snack size bag of chips, and feels like it weighs under two pounds. It's not even new tech; I've had it for at least six years.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoYes but its still a pain to pack it up and carry it around
- dreamcompiler 7y agoYou can buy an Omron wrist BP monitor in a drug store today. It's cheap, lightweight, and portable. Accuracy however, is not very good in my experience when compared with an arm cuff and a stethoscope used by an experienced practitioner.