Wearable Evaluation of Ambulatory Readings for Blood Pressure
Stephen Juraschek
Summary
The purpose of this project is to compare the performance and validity of novel wearable technologies that measure blood pressure (BP) and physical activity with a Spacelabs Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) device.
Description
The investigators will recruit community-dwelling participants to wear novel cuffless BP monitoring devices for comparison with a Spacelabs ABPM device throughout a 24-hour period. The identification of accurate cuffless BP technologies would greatly improve access to ABPM and allow for BP measurements at times when the use of cuff-based devices are not feasible. Knowledge from this project will inform subsequent research protocols among adults and under-represented groups. Up to 250 participants (at least 100) will be involved in this study each wearing up to 7 devices (6 BP devices and 1 ac…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–100 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 to 100 years * All neighborhoods in Boston area * Be able to walk with two limbs and have two arms * Willing and able to complete required measurement procedures * Able to provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Failure to receive informed consent * Arm circumference of more than 50cm
Interventions
- DeviceABPMPro
This is an upper arm, cuff-based intermittent ambulatory BP device. This device has an internal activity and body position sensor which gathers information about sleep-wake estimation.
- DeviceSpacelabs Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
This is an upper arm cuff-based device with tubing for continuous ambulatory BP monitoring with a unique activity sensor that correlate with patient movement activity with blood pressure changes.
- DeviceAktiia Blood Pressure
This is a wrist cuff-based device which uses an optical sensor (photoplethysmography sensor) to gather data from the arteries under the skin surface. Aktiia has an upper arm cuff device which is used for calibration once every month to provide a baseline blood pressure reading.
- DeviceLiveMetric
This is a wrist cuff-based applanation tonometry continuous ambulatory BP device. This device has automatic self-calibration and comes in various sizes.
- DeviceBpro
This is a wrist cuff-based wireless oscillometric, continuous ambulatory BP device. It has applanation tonometry at the wrist with Pulse wave analysis. This device needs calibration with a brachial cuff BP measurement.
Location
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBoston, Massachusetts