An Integrated Blood Pressure Measurement System for Suppression of Motion Artifacts

Hypertension affects approximately one billion individuals worldwide. It is estimated to be responsible for 7.1 million premature deaths and 4.5% of disease burden. Moreover, overestimating or underestimating blood pressure (BP) by even as little as 5 mmHg can result in over 20 million persons appearing to have normal blood pressure rather than hypertension [1].

Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - March 8, 2017 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Huthaifa N. Abderahman, Hilmi R. Dajani, Miodrag Bolic, Voicu Z. Groza Source Type: research