ReviewHypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)2025
Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement: Where Do We Actually Stand?
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- The quest for accurate wearable blood pressure monitors.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026Review
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- Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring: A Comprehensive Review.American journal of hypertension · 2026Review
- Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Wearable Blood Pressure Monitoring in Resource-Limited Settings: A Co-Design of Sensors, Model, and Deployment.Nano-micro letters · 2026Review
- Innovative Wearable Platform for Synchronized Biosignals Acquisition: A Proof of Concept in a Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Monitoring Case Study.IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine · 2026Article
- A Dual-Output Physiology-Informed Neural Network Architecture for Continuous Cuffless Blood Pressure Waveform Estimation: A Proof‑of‑Concept.Artery research · 2026Article
- Reducing bias and enhancing equity in AI-enabled precision nutrition: addressing measurement error across wearables, multiomics, and dietary data.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- Optical methods for cuffless blood pressure measurements.Biophotonics discovery · 2026Review
- Cuffless Noninvasive Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring Using Superficial Temporal Arterial Tonometry.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2026Article
- Interpretable photoplethysmography-based machine-learning model for noninvasive assessment of systolic blood pressure.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Nocturnal blood pressure burden: towards a better understanding of the OSA-hypertension relationship.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Article
- Estimating blood pressure from the electrocardiogram: findings of a large-scale negative results study.Physiological measurement · 2025Article
- A guide to consumer-grade wearables in cardiovascular clinical care and population health for non-experts.NPJ cardiovascular health · 2025Review
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Abstract
Cuffless blood pressure (BP) measurement offers considerable potential for clinical practice but is a challenging technological field. Many are investigating pulse wave analysis with or without pulse arrival time in which machine learning is applied to pulsatile waveforms obtained with mobile devices (eg, wristbands, smartphones) to estimate BP. These methods generally require individual user calibration with cuff BP measurements or demographics (eg, age, sex). This calibration makes it difficult to evaluate the method's accuracy, and many studies claiming accuracy used inadequate testing procedures. Yet, publications and regulatory-cleared devices continue to rise, seemingly implying technological advancements. An update is provided on the flurry of activity in cuffless BP technologies over the last 2 to 3 years, covering the clinical need, the latest devices, recent publications based on pulse wave analysis and pulse arrival time, progress in developing validation standards for cuffless BP devices, and recent publications on other cuffless BP measurement principles. Despite the high volume of research and development, to date, there is no compelling evidence that pulse wave analysis and pulse arrival time can provide significant added value in BP measurement accuracy beyond the cuff BP or demographic data for calibration. Thus, it is reasonable to at least be skeptical of published and future studies on pulse wave analysis and pulse arrival time for cuffless BP measurement with uncertain testing procedures. It is important to focus on establishing robust validation standards for cuffless BP devices requiring individual user calibration and also pursuing cuffless and calibration-free BP measurement methodologies going forward.
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