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Thin, soft, wearable system for continuous wireless monitoring of artery blood pressure.

Jian LiHuiling JiaJingkun ZhouXingcan HuangLong XuShengxin JiaZhan GaoKuanming YaoDengfeng LiBinbin ZhangYiming LiuYa HuangYue HuGuangyao ZhaoZitong XuJiyu LiChun Ki YiuYuyu GaoMengge WuYanli JiaoQiang ZhangXuecheng TaiRaymond H ChanYuanting ZhangXiaohui MaXinge Yu
Published in: Nature communications (2023)
Continuous monitoring of arterial blood pressure (BP) outside of a clinical setting is crucial for preventing and diagnosing hypertension related diseases. However, current continuous BP monitoring instruments suffer from either bulky systems or poor user-device interfacial performance, hampering their applications in continuous BP monitoring. Here, we report a thin, soft, miniaturized system (TSMS) that combines a conformal piezoelectric sensor array, an active pressure adaptation unit, a signal processing module, and an advanced machine learning method, to allow real wearable, continuous wireless monitoring of ambulatory artery BP. By optimizing the materials selection, control/sampling strategy, and system integration, the TSMS exhibits improved interfacial performance while maintaining Grade A level measurement accuracy. Initial trials on 87 volunteers and clinical tracking of two hypertension individuals prove the capability of the TSMS as a reliable BP measurement product, and its feasibility and practical usability in precise BP control and personalized diagnosis schemes development.
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