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Validation of the mobile wireless digital automatic blood pressure monitor using the cuff pressure oscillometric method, for clinical use and self-management, according to international protocols

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of a mobile wireless digital automatic blood pressure monitor for clinical use and mobile health (mHealth). In this study, a manual sphygmomanometer and a digital blood pressure monitor were tested in 100 participants in a repetitive and sequential manner to measure blood pressure. The guidelines for measurement used the Korea Food & Drug Administration protocol, which reflects international standards, such as the American National Standard Institution/Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation SP 10: 1992 and the British Hypertension Society protocol. Measurements were generally consistent across observers according to the measured mean ± SD, which ranged in 0.1 ± 2.6 mmHg for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and 0.5 ± 2.2 mmHg for diastolic blood pressure (DBP). For the device and the observer, the difference in average blood pressure (mean ± SD) was 2.3 ± 4.7 mmHg for SBP and 2.0 ± 4.2 mmHg for DBP. The SBP and DBP measured in this study showed accurate measurements that satisfied all criteria, including an average difference that did not exceed 5 mmHg and a standard deviation that did not exceed 8 mmHg. The mobile wireless digital blood pressure monitor has the potential for clinical use and managing one’s own health.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by SK Telecom Co. Ltd and supported by the Technology Innovation Program funded By the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of Korea (10049785, Development of ‘medical equipment using (ionizing or non-ionizing) radiation’-dedicated R&D platform and medical device technology). The authors thank the Medical Research Collaborating Center at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital for consultation on the statistical analyses.

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  1. Sooyoung Yoo and Hyunyoung Baek contributed equally to this work as first authors.

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  1. Office of eHealth Research and Businesses, Healthcare ICT Research Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

    Sooyoung Yoo & Hyunyoung Baek

  2. Medical Device Research and Development Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

    Kibbeum Doh & Kidong Kim

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 82 Gumi-ro, 173 Beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13620, South Korea

    Jiyeoun Jeong & Kidong Kim

  4. Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

    Soyeon Ahn

  5. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

    Il-Young Oh

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This study was funded by SK Telecom Co. Ltd. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Yoo, S., Baek, H., Doh, K. et al. Validation of the mobile wireless digital automatic blood pressure monitor using the cuff pressure oscillometric method, for clinical use and self-management, according to international protocols. Biomed. Eng. Lett. 8, 399–404 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13534-018-0085-0

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