The Wearable That Could End the Era of the Blood Pressure Cuff

For more than a century, checking your blood pressure has meant wrapping a cuff around your arm, squeezing it until your fingers tingle, and sitting perfectly still while a machine spits out two numbers. Useful? Sure. Practical for real-time monitoring? Not even close.

That static, one-off measurement leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of what’s happening inside your arteries during the other 23 hours and 59 minutes of your day. And it’s part of why hypertension—one of the world’s most common and deadly conditions—still blindsides millions of people.

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Almost 1 in 5 Young Adults in the U.S. Has High Blood Pressure

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Being overweight or obese is a well-known risk factor for high blood pressure.

Expanding waistlines and higher body mass index of young adults are causing unexpected problems, including an increase in diabetes, kidney disease and even arthritis say federal health officials.

 

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