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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

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

Annina S Vischer, Jana Rosania, Thenral Socrates, Christina Blaschke, Jens Eckstein, Yara-Maria Proust, Guillaume Bonnier, Martin Proença, Mathieu Lemay, Thilo Burkard

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Annina S VischerMedical Outpatient Department and Hypertension Clinic, ESH Hypertension Centre of Excellence, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5188-1723
Jana RosaniaMedical Outpatient Department and Hypertension Clinic, ESH Hypertension Centre of Excellence, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Thenral SocratesMedical Outpatient Department and Hypertension Clinic, ESH Hypertension Centre of Excellence, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Christina BlaschkeMedical Outpatient Department and Hypertension Clinic, ESH Hypertension Centre of Excellence, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Jens EcksteinDepartment of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Yara-Maria ProustCentre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM), 2002 Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Guillaume BonnierCentre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM), 2002 Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Martin ProençaCentre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM), 2002 Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Mathieu LemayCentre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM), 2002 Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Thilo BurkardMedical Outpatient Department and Hypertension Clinic, ESH Hypertension Centre of Excellence, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6373-9820

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Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland) NA
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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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arterial hypertensionblood-pressure measurementblood-pressure monitoringdiagnostic techniquesmonitoringnew technologiessmartphone application

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PMCPMC8947665

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