by Bruce Brown | March 11, 2019 | Medical
Earlier this month, on March 4, 2019, the American Heart Association published a new scientific statement on blood pressure measurement in humans. This publication gets into significant depth but not so deep that it’s unreadable by laypeople. This is the first...
by Alfred Poor | November 29, 2018 | General News, Health
Conventional wisdom says that people quickly tire of their fitness bands, and shove them into the back of a drawer somewhere. New research from Valencell paints a very different picture. An online survey provides an update for the study that the company conducted two...
by Bruce Brown | October 15, 2018 | General News, Health
Every month we write about new technologies developed to monitor blood pressure. High blood pressure continues to plague Americans in massive proportions, affecting two-thirds of the U.S. adult population if you count both hypertension and prehypertension, says the...
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by Alfred Poor | October 10, 2018 | General News, Health
One of the holy grails of wearable health tech is an optical sensor that can measure blood pressure accurately. Many companies are working toward such a solution, but for now, the most reliable results still come from devices that use a pressure cuff to restrict blood...
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by Bruce Brown | October 5, 2018 | General News, Health
The incidence of high blood pressure among U.S. adults would be astounding if the correlations with poor lifestyle choices weren’t so clear. Obesity, poor nutrition, and inadequate exercise are all too common among adults, and they relate directly with unhealthy...
