The new cuffless devices promise to reveal a more complete picture of physiologic changes in blood pressure that cannot be picked up with spot measurements, and instead give a truer blood pressure ...

The agency claims Whoop is marketing an unauthorized medical device intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent a disease.

In the study, researchers compared the effectiveness of the two device types in lowering blood pressure when used by patients from more than 20 medical centers around the country. Researchers randomly ...

New blood pressure devices do away with the arm cuff and offer blood pressure values on demand. ... Both types of devices capture signals from the body noninvasively, from the fingertip, ...

Cuffless blood pressure measurement has considerable potential, but because its accuracy hasn't been validated, it's not suitable for clinical use for now, the European Society of Hypertension says.

Many blood pressure devices available commercially have not been validated, Bali says, meaning they haven’t been independently verified to meet agreed-upon standards for accuracy.

When patients are diagnosed with hypertension—as nearly half of American adults have been—they are often advised to buy a blood pressure monitoring device to use at home. Daily home readings ...