Comparability of a Blood-Pressure-Monitoring Smartphone Application with Conventional Measurements-A Pilot Study.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: MDPI AG Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 101658402 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 2075-4418 (Print) Linking ISSN: 20754418 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Diagnostics (Basel) Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Basel, Switzerland : MDPI AG, [2011]-
    • Abstract:
      (1) Background: New cuffless technologies attempting blood-pressure measurements (BPM) offer possibilities to improve hypertension awareness and control. The aim of this study was to compare a smartphone application (app)-based algorithm with office BPM (OBPM). (2) Methods: We included consecutive patients with an indication for ambulatory BPM. The smartphone app (RIVA digital) acquired the pulse wave in the fingers’ arterial bed using the phone’s camera and estimated BP based on photoplethysmographic (PPG) waveforms. Measurements were alternatingly taken with an oscillometric cuff-based device and smartphone BPM (AppBP) on two consecutive days. AppBP were calibrated to the first OBPM. Each AppBP was compared to its CuffBP (mean of the previous/following OBPM). (3) Results: 50 participants were included, resulting in 50 AppBP values on Day 1 and 33 on Day 2 after exclusion of 225 AppBP due to insufficient quality. The mean ± SD of the differences between AppBP and CuffBP was 0.7 ± 9.4/1.0 ± 4.5 mmHg (p-value 0.739/0.201) on Day 1 and 2.6 ± 8.2/1.3 ± 4.1 mmHg (p-value 0.106/0.091) on Day 2 for systolic/diastolic values, respectively. There were no significant differences between the deviations on Day 1 and Day 2 (p-value 0.297/0.533 for systolic/diastolic values). Overall, there were 10 (12%) systolic measurement pairs differing by >15 mmHg. (4) Conclusions: In this pilot evaluation, the RIVA Digital app shows promising results when compared to oscillometric cuff-based measurements, especially regarding diastolic values. Its differences between AppBP−CuffBP have a good stability one day after calibration. Before clinical use, signal acquisition needs improvement and the algorithm needs to undergo formal validation against a gold-standard BPM method.
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    • Grant Information:
      NA Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: arterial hypertension; blood-pressure measurement; blood-pressure monitoring; diagnostic techniques; monitoring; new technologies; smartphone application
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20220325 Latest Revision: 20240825
    • Publication Date:
      20240826
    • Accession Number:
      PMC8947665
    • Accession Number:
      10.3390/diagnostics12030749
    • Accession Number:
      35328302