Blood Pressure must be measured for hyper or hypotensive patients regularly by a doctor. However, we cannot monitor ourselves it correctly. But now a mobile app has been developed by which we can monitor blood pressure using an app. Scientists, including those of Indian-origin, have developed a new smartphone app and hardware that could help measure blood pressure more accurately than existing cuff devices.
The team, from Michigan State University in the US, also discovered a more convenient measurement point. “We targeted a different artery, the transverse palmer arch artery at the fingertip, to give us better control of the measurement,” said a doctoral student at MSU. “We were excited when we validated this location. Being able to use your fingertip makes our approach much easier and more accessible,” said the lead author of the study published in the journal Science Translational…
