Andrew M. Carek
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The current norm for measuring blood pressure (BP) at home is using an automated BP cuff based on oscillometry. Despite providing a viable and familiar method of tracking BP at home, oscillometric devices can be both cumbersome and inaccurate with the inconvenience of the hardware typically limiting measurements to once or twice per day. To address these limitations, a wrist-watch BP monitor was developed to measure BP through a simple maneuver: holding the watch against the sternum to detect micro-vibrations of the chest wall associated with the heartbeat. As a pulse wave propagates from the heart to the wrist, an accelerometer and optical sensor on the watch measure the travel time -- pulse transit time (PTT) -- to estimate BP. In this paper, we conducted a study to test the accuracy and repeatability of our device. After calibration, the diastolic pressure estimations reached a root-mean-square error of 2.9 mmHg. The watch-based system significantly outperformed (p<0.05) conventional pulse arrival time (PAT) based wearable blood pressure estimations -- the most commonly used method for wearable BP sensing in the existing literature and commercial devices. Our device can be a convenient means for wearable BP monitoring outside of clinical settings in both health-conscious and hypertensive populations.
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