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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