Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Valencell’s Blood Pressure Monitor Fits on a Finger”.
I have high blood pressure and I’ve been interested in blood pressure wearables. For years I looked at omron’s inflatable, cuff watch. I’Ve looked at standard cuffs. I looked at sensors on smart watches. Valence cell is a company.
That’S made sensors that use Optical heart rate for years and they’ve been working for a while on trying to make a little blood pressure sensing device. What they’ve centered on is something that uses your finger kind of similar to a pulse oximeter. It’S a little clip-on monitor. That’S supposed to work without any calibration to a blood pressure monitor and it takes a reading at about the same time that it takes to get an inflatable cuff measurement. So what’s the difference, it’s a lot smaller.
This thing is so small that you could, just you know, tuck it in your pocket, put it in your bag. The technology is similar to a pulse oximeter, in that it uses light that bounces off of your finger to measure for blood flow using a technology called PPG that gets interpreted with different algorithms here to find out your blood pressure. What it does ask for is your weight and height to come up with something that helps the algorithm, calibrate better, to figure out what your blood pressure is.
I took a reading in a very crowded CES in Las Vegas, not an ideal situation for blood pressure. I’M dehydrated, I was wearing a mask. You know I was feeling stressed once it took a measurement which again took about 30 seconds.
I got to see that lo and behold, blood pressure was high. Now I had no way of checking that against the blood pressure, cuff. So I don’t actually know how accurate it is, but the claim is that it will be equivalent, although a very, very, very high blood pressures like we’re talking, really high blood pressures. According to Dr Stephen LaBeouf, who runs the company, you might run into some accuracy problems, but apparently, if you did get that high you’d still know, you had high blood pressure, just not how high now the idea of this type of a reader is not really meant To replace a blood pressure, cuff, that’s meant to kind of supplement it, so this product, which may cost about 99, is something that you carry around and measure more frequently when it comes out I’ll, be really curious to use it. It may let you know if you have high blood pressure and for that alone it could be useful. .