Apple Pioneers โBlood Pressure Monitoring on โขApple Watch, Potentially Impacting 1.3 Billion Worldwide
CUPERTINO, CA – Apple has become teh first major technologyโค company to โขintegrate blood pressure monitoring directly into its Apple โWatch, a breakthrough poised to revolutionize personal health tracking and early โdetection of a leading global health risk. The โขnew feature, utilizing advanced light sensors and algorithms, analyzes blood vessel stiffness andโ flow to identify potential hypertension, alerting users to patterns indicative of high blood pressure over weeks of data collection.
While Apple received swift approval from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, the technology requires regulatory clearance in other countries before โคlaunch. This innovation arrives asโ high blood โฃpressure affects an estimated 1.3 billion adults globally and is a primary risk factor for heart attacks,โข stroke, and kidney disease.โ Appleโ anticipatesโ itsโ watch could reveal over โขone million โpreviously undetected cases of hypertension.
The technologyโข functions by sensing subtle changes in bloodโฃ flow through light sensors positioned on the back of the watch. Sophisticated algorithms than analyze this data, decomposing it over 30 days to identify patterns. “The โalgorithms work in the background, and decompose data for 30 days, and then alert you if you discover the presence โof a โขpattern indicating high blood pressure,” explained โSomole Desai, a deputy at Apple, during the feature’s announcement.
Apple developed the technique using advanced machine learning models and โฃstudies involving โmore than 100,000 participants. The feature will be available on newer models,as well as older devices like the Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2,through โคan operating system update. According to reports in โขthe Daily Mail, this positions โขApple ahead of competitors in the wearable health technology market.
