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by TechBro8615 1006 days ago
I wonder if there are methods that could take advantage of natural movements throughout the day, where your body naturally emulates what the cuff forces it to do. For example, when you transition suddenly from sitting to standing, is it possible for a sensor to measure some proxy metric that, combined with an accelerometer, can be used to infer blood pressure? If there is some method like this, even if it has large margins of error, maybe cumulative measurements could converge on a fairly accurate reading?

(I'm not a medical professional nor do I know much about sensing, or even really the basics of how blood pressure is measured or what it indicates.)