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Smart watch man­u­fac­tur­ers are not in vain try­ing to focus these mul­ti­func­tion­al gad­gets on human health. Mod­ern peo­ple try to take care of them­selves, and smart tech­nol­o­gy helps them do this not from time to time, but all the time — even around the clock, if nec­es­sary. Smart watch­es are indis­pens­able for hyper­ten­sive and hypoten­sive patients, espe­cial­ly in cas­es where the pres­sure can “jump”: on an air­plane or on a run, while walk­ing or hik­ing. Do not car­ry a tonome­ter with you every­where.

Such mod­els can also be use­ful for ath­letes — they help to avoid dan­ger­ous over­loads dur­ing train­ing. And smart watch­es with a tonome­ter are indis­pens­able for the elder­ly: they will help you see a doc­tor in time.

How­ev­er, most pres­sure-mea­sur­ing “bracelets” syn­chro­nized with a smart­phone are still not med­ical equip­ment. In many mod­els, the tonome­ter func­tion is just a nice addi­tion. And they, unlike a med­ical device, do not mea­sure pres­sure using cuffs, but cal­cu­late it like a cal­cu­la­tor using a for­mu­la based on the read­ings of sen­sors built into the case and bio­met­ric data that you enter into a spe­cial appli­ca­tion on your smart­phone. And it works like this: the sen­sor emits a light sig­nal, which pen­e­trates the skin, and the device records the pulse rate, the rate of dis­per­sion of the pulse wave and the translu­cen­cy of the blood. And then — sol­id math­e­mat­ics. The more cor­rect the input data, the more accu­rate the cal­cu­la­tions. It was the accu­ra­cy of the indi­ca­tors that we took as a basis, mak­ing a rat­ing of smart watch­es with pres­sure mea­sure­ment.

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Editor’s Choice

Health Watch Pro №80M

Health­band Health Watch Pro No. 80M is a know-how from a Russ­ian man­u­fac­tur­er: a pro­fes­sion­al health cuff watch. This is the first Russ­ian mod­el that has the abil­i­ty to mea­sure pres­sure by the clas­si­cal oscil­lo­met­ric method using an inflat­able cuff. For Watch Pro №80M, the accu­ra­cy of data, the error and the rules for mak­ing pres­sure mea­sure­ments will be sim­i­lar to a carpal med­ical tonome­ter, unlike con­ven­tion­al smart­watch­es that cal­cu­late pres­sure math­e­mat­i­cal­ly. But most impor­tant­ly, in the pres­ence of a blood pres­sure cuff, the watch retained the abil­i­ty to mea­sure all oth­er impor­tant health para­me­ters.

Pro No.80M main mea­sure­ment fea­tures:

1. Cuff pres­sure mea­sure­ment
2. Auto­mat­ic round-the-clock mea­sure­ment of heart rate, body tem­per­a­ture, blood oxy­gen sat­u­ra­tion and res­pi­ra­tion 24/7
3. Eval­u­a­tion of the dynam­ics of blood pres­sure in motion 24/7 optics
4. Alarm in case of tachy­car­dia and hyper­ther­mia
5. Mon­i­tor­ing the dura­tion and qual­i­ty of sleep
6. Dis­play mea­sure­ment his­to­ry on the watch screen and in the app

All mea­sure­ment results can be mon­i­tored using a smart­phone from any­where in the world. This will be most rel­e­vant for those who buy a watch as a gift for an elder­ly per­son liv­ing in anoth­er city.

Health Watch Pro №80M sup­ports many tra­di­tion­al smart­watch fea­tures:

1. Noti­fi­ca­tions for incom­ing calls, sms, mes­sages in instant mes­sen­gers
2. Step counter, dis­tance trav­eled and calo­ries
3. Hav­ing a train­ing reg­i­men

Pro No. 80M retained an ele­gant appear­ance, suit­able for both men and women.

Main characteristics

Screen size	1.3 inch­es
Mois­ture pro­tec­tion	IP66
Dura­tion of work with­out recharg­ing	15 days
The weight	55 g

Pros and cons

Accu­rate mea­sure­ment of blood pres­sure; auto­mat­ic mea­sure­ment of all oth­er para­me­ters: pulse, pres­sure, oxy­gen, tem­per­a­ture; remote data con­trol; two anom­aly detec­tors; styl­ish look

It is for­bid­den to take a show­er and swim in this watch, as there are holes for pump­ing air into the cuff, but you can safe­ly wash your hands

Edi­tor’s Choice

Health Watch Pro №80M

Pro­fes­sion­al health cuff watch

The most accu­rate watch among smart­watch­es. Mea­sure pres­sure using a clas­sic cuff, com­pa­ra­ble in accu­ra­cy to a tonome­ter

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1. HEALTHBAND Health Watch Pro #5

This mod­el from the Russ­ian com­pa­ny Health­band can be called a “pro­fes­sion­al car­dio watch.” Sen­sors and elec­trodes, hid­den in their styl­ish steel case, are “writ­ten off” from parts used in spe­cial­ized med­ical equip­ment and are very sen­si­tive. A big plus of such watch­es is that even with­out being tied to a smart­phone, they do an excel­lent job of auto­mat­i­cal­ly “track­ing” the state of health around the clock 24/7, and if abnor­mal­i­ties occur in the heart, they imme­di­ate­ly give a vibra­tion alert, warn­ing a per­son from pos­si­ble com­pli­ca­tions.

In terms of pres­sure mea­sure­ment accu­ra­cy, today this mod­el occu­pies the first line in the rat­ing of prod­ucts from this man­u­fac­tur­er. But you need to keep in mind: before using Health Watch Pro No. 5, you need to read the instruc­tions for set­tings and mea­sure­ments, since the accu­ra­cy of the data received will depend on this. The device must be con­fig­ured accord­ing to the instruc­tions for two para­me­ters:

1. Choose the cor­rect “age of the ves­sels” so that the age char­ac­ter­is­tics of a per­son are tak­en into account when cal­cu­lat­ing the data;
2. “Cal­i­brate” under the oper­at­ing pres­sure so that the device remem­bers the start­ing indi­ca­tors and takes mea­sure­ments, tak­ing into account the error.

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By the way, the gad­get not only mon­i­tors the pres­sure of the “own­er” in auto­mat­ic mode, but also mea­sures body tem­per­a­ture, oxy­gen lev­els in the blood 24/7, takes and even decodes the ECG. And yet — it counts the dis­tance trav­eled, the calo­ries spent per day, mon­i­tors the qual­i­ty of sleep, and so on — in a word, it can do every­thing that oth­er smart fit­ness watch­es do. But the main fea­ture is the abil­i­ty to con­trol the results of mea­sure­ments from any­where in the world, which will be espe­cial­ly impor­tant for those who select such a device for rel­a­tives liv­ing, for exam­ple, in anoth­er city.

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Edi­tor’s Choice

Health Watch Pro №5

Pro­fes­sion­al car­dio watch

Car­dio watch with the most sen­si­tive elec­trodes, the best solu­tion for those who need max­i­mum func­tion­al­i­ty with­out using a smart­phone

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2. Omron Heart Guide

Omron is a well-known man­u­fac­tur­er of pro­fes­sion­al mea­sur­ing equip­ment, and the smart­watch released by them is a real blood pres­sure mon­i­tor that can be worn on the arm.

This thing is pure­ly med­ical, in which the rest of the smart watch chips (count­ing steps, dis­play­ing mes­sages com­ing to the smart­phone) are just dec­o­ra­tion of the main func­tion — mea­sur­ing blood pres­sure. Yes, regard­ing this mod­el, we are talk­ing about mea­sure­ment, not cal­cu­la­tion. This is the only smart watch on the mar­ket with a cuff: when mea­sur­ing, the strap is inflat­ed with air and inflates like a “shoul­der ban­dage” from a con­ven­tion­al blood pres­sure mon­i­tor.

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Gad­gets for a healthy lifestyle

3. Samsung Galaxy Watch 3

The uni­ver­sal gad­get Sam­sung Galaxy Watch 3, which is avail­able in two ver­sions (in steel and tita­ni­um cas­es). The “skill” of mea­sur­ing pres­sure by the man­u­fac­tur­er has been worked out for the “five”. The watch, although it can­not be called a pro­fes­sion­al blood pres­sure mon­i­tor (by the way, in the tech­ni­cal data sheet for the device it is strong­ly rec­om­mend­ed not to con­sid­er its read­ings suf­fi­cient for mak­ing a diag­no­sis), accord­ing to user reviews, Sam­sung Galaxy Watch 3 cal­cu­lates blood pres­sure quite accu­rate­ly. The max­i­mum error is 5–7 units. No won­der this watch is the flag­ship prod­uct of the com­pa­ny today. True, it is not rec­om­mend­ed to mea­sure pres­sure on the go with their help, to obtain the most accu­rate data, sit on a chair, put your hand on the table so that your wrist is in line with your heart and go! This smart watch will not let you down. They have a very large set of con­ve­nient func­tions. For exam­ple, in order to reply to a mes­sage that came to the phone, the device only needs Wi-Fi. The watch con­nects to the smart­phone auto­mat­i­cal­ly, includ­ing via 4G.

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4. Herz Band Elegance S5

This is one of the most accu­rate smart­watch­es that can mea­sure blood pres­sure in the bud­get seg­ment. Accord­ing to user reviews, the error in indi­ca­tors is nev­er more than 10 units. For a gad­get that only “pre­tends” to be a med­ical device, this is an excel­lent result.

But HerzBand Ele­gance S5 is still more of a bio­met­ric device than a watch that dupli­cates a smart­phone. This mod­el not only dis­plays noti­fi­ca­tions about mes­sages com­ing to the phone: it mea­sures pres­sure both on com­mand (if it detects devi­a­tions, it will give a sig­nal), and in con­tin­u­ous mode, and also ana­lyzes sleep, dai­ly activ­i­ty of the “own­er” and so on.

At the same time, smart watch­es look very ele­gant: the case is made of a spe­cial light­weight alloy, which makes them almost weight­less.

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5. Asus Vivo Watch BP

The large case of Asus Vivo Watch BP makes this smart watch some­thing like a small copy of a smart­phone with all the “bells and whis­tles”. The func­tion of mea­sur­ing pres­sure in them is rather an attempt by the man­u­fac­tur­er to expand the list of gad­get fea­tures and make it meet the trend for a healthy lifestyle. They are called so — “smart watch­es with a med­ical bias.” 20 sec­onds — and the gad­get will mea­sure the pulse, pres­sure of the “own­er” and enter the data into mem­o­ry in order to make rec­om­men­da­tions on what to do to nor­mal­ize health if nec­es­sary.

Like oth­er smart­watch­es, Asus Vivo Watch BP mon­i­tors the state of the user’s body around the clock and does it more or less accu­rate­ly. This mod­el will not be able to replace a pro­fes­sion­al tonome­ter, but it is quite pos­si­ble to track seri­ous pres­sure surges.

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6. COLMI P8

Anoth­er bud­get option for mon­i­tor­ing blood pres­sure at home is the COLMI P8 smart watch. Many built-in func­tions at a rea­son­able price attract buy­ers: who would refuse a water­proof watch with round-the-clock mon­i­tor­ing of activ­i­ty and health sta­tus. The watch mon­i­tors blood pres­sure and oxy­gen lev­els in the blood 24/7. A bonus for women is the abil­i­ty to track their men­stru­al cycle.

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There are nine col­ors to choose from and two types of strap: met­al and sil­i­cone. Accord­ing to reviews, the watch is not only styl­ish and com­fort­able to wear, but also “con­nects” with any smart­phones. In real time, there is an unin­ter­rupt­ed trans­mis­sion of noti­fi­ca­tions, and you can also set an alarm clock and con­trol the smart­phone’s cam­era with a cou­ple of clicks on the watch’s touch screen. The bat­tery capac­i­ty is 190 mAh, the man­u­fac­tur­er claims a week of work with­out recharg­ing.

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7. Band Rate Smart

Smart watch Ban­dRate Smart SHH3030 with mois­ture pro­tec­tion has a stain­less steel case. The strap is pre­sent­ed in 4 basic col­ors: black, white, pink, blue. In terms of the set of func­tions, the watch is not infe­ri­or to more expen­sive mod­els, there is also sleep mon­i­tor­ing, a calo­rie counter, a sen­sor for deter­min­ing the lev­el of oxy­gen and, of course, a blood pres­sure mon­i­tor.

Smart­watch­es do not replace, accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, med­ical devices for health mon­i­tor­ing, but they are quite capa­ble of mea­sur­ing tasks. In order to increase the accu­ra­cy of the indi­ca­tors, you need to spec­i­fy the age of the wear­er of the smart watch in the set­tings.

IP67 water­proof rat­ing allows you to show­er and swim with­out remov­ing your watch. The watch has to be charged every 7–10 days, the declared bat­tery capac­i­ty is 180 mAh. Pair­ing with a smart­phone occurs with­out prob­lems if the iOS ver­sion is high­er than 9, and Android is high­er than 4.4.

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8. Paleohora M36 plus

Fans of devices with wire­less charg­ing will like the smart watch Pale­o­ho­ra M36 plus. Now on the HD Super AMOLED watch screen, you can eas­i­ly read noti­fi­ca­tions from SMS, iMes­sage, VK, Insta­gram, Telegram, What­sApp and oth­er pop­u­lar appli­ca­tions. In addi­tion to view­ing noti­fi­ca­tions, using the device, you can receive an incom­ing call with­out tak­ing your smart­phone out of your pock­et. Also, you always have an alarm clock, stop­watch and cal­cu­la­tor at hand.

The smart watch is shock­proof, dust and mois­ture resis­tant. The mod­el is per­fect for reg­u­lar mon­i­tor­ing of blood pres­sure and heart rate. Accord­ing to user reviews, the built-in pedome­ter, GPS track­er and oth­er sen­sors work with­out fail­ures.

Bat­tery capac­i­ty is slight­ly larg­er than most com­peti­tors -

200 mAh, but the claimed bat­tery life is three days. The 210mm long sil­i­cone strap is avail­able in 5 vibrant col­ors. You can set the clock your­self with­out much dif­fi­cul­ty, because the Russ­ian-lan­guage instruc­tions are includ­ed.

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9. GSMIN WP 41

Per­haps one of the best bud­get mod­els. Styl­ish smart watch GSMIN WP 41 with a remov­able sil­i­cone strap will look har­mo­nious­ly with both a sports uni­form and a for­mal suit. The rec­tan­gu­lar smooth plas­tic case with­out but­tons makes them look like some mini-com­mu­ni­ca­tor from a sci­ence fic­tion movie about the future.

The GSMIN WP 41 watch can be called a per­son­al train­er and ther­a­pist who will mon­i­tor the health of his “own­er” 24 hours a day, and if the smart watch sen­sors detect that he has been sit­ting too long, the gad­get will sig­nal the need for a warm-up. The watch mea­sures pres­sure and pulse both on com­mand and in auto­mat­ic mode. GSMIN WP 41 can be pro­grammed so that the gad­get dis­plays read­ings on the screen at a cer­tain inter­val. After col­lect­ing data using an accu­rate PPG sen­sor and LEDs, the smart­watch cal­cu­lates the pres­sure in 2.5 min­utes. Not very fast. But where to hur­ry when it comes to health?

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10. Digma Startline

Dig­ma Star­t­line smart watch with alu­minum case and 1.54 inch screen does an excel­lent job of mon­i­tor­ing blood pres­sure in real time. In addi­tion, there is an accu­rate pedome­ter, heart rate mon­i­tor and a sen­sor for mea­sur­ing the lev­el of oxy­gen in the blood. To view noti­fi­ca­tions, pair­ing with a smart­phone run­ning Android 4.4 and IOS 10 is required.

Pho­tog­ra­phy lovers will be able to use the watch to con­trol the shut­ter on their smart­phone for quick shots. The 200 mAh bat­tery holds a charge for up to 10 days of oper­a­tion. The sil­i­cone strap is inter­change­able and comes stan­dard in uni­ver­sal black.

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See also: the best med­ical pulse oxime­ters

11. LEMFO N58

The most bud­getary, but quite func­tion­al mod­el of smart watch­es, “trained” to mea­sure blood pres­sure, pulse and take ECG. Despite the fact that the price of these smart watch­es is very demo­c­ra­t­ic, it is impos­si­ble to say that they are very wrong in mea­sure­ments. When used cor­rect­ly (remem­ber about cal­i­bra­tion using the mea­sure­ments of a con­ven­tion­al tonome­ter), the results of the device are quite cor­rect: for exam­ple, the typ­i­cal error that users encounter when mea­sur­ing pres­sure is no more than 5 units. Although the man­u­fac­tur­er reminds: LEMFO N58 is not a med­ical device and the error allowed for it is up to a per­cent.

The watch looks sol­id: many peo­ple like the black met­al case. Most of the func­tions typ­i­cal of smart­watch­es are avail­able: the gad­get will also report calls with mes­sages received on the smart­phone, mon­i­tor sleep, and count steps with calo­ries. And don’t for­get to cal­i­brate! With­out it, the mea­sure­ment results can be dis­ap­point­ing.

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Leaders of the Past

1. Half Sun Smart Watch

The man­u­fac­tur­er posi­tions this mod­el as a fit­ness watch with a tonome­ter. With this watch, you can quick­ly mea­sure blood pres­sure and pulse. Just 30 sec­onds and you’re done!

Half sun watch­es are not only equipped with a fit­ness track­er with a heart rate mon­i­tor, a sleep sen­sor, a pedome­ter and an inno­v­a­tive heart rate sen­sor, the device can read the user’s pres­sure lev­el around the clock. If some­thing is “wrong”, it starts to vibrate. By the way, in order to col­lect and ana­lyze data on the state and well-being of the “own­er”, this smart watch does not need the Inter­net. After the first syn­chro­niza­tion with the appli­ca­tion, they work offline. The gad­get also has a func­tion specif­i­cal­ly for women: track­ing the men­stru­al cycle. A very use­ful “chip” if you are plan­ning a preg­nan­cy.

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2. Geozon Vita Plus

The mod­el is made of plas­tic and is equipped with a sen­sor for mea­sur­ing pres­sure and pulse, it can “read” a car­dio­gram. All received data is dis­played on the smart­phone screen. The gad­get copes with pres­sure mea­sure­ment in a few sec­onds, and if the watch is cal­i­brat­ed in the appli­ca­tion, then, accord­ing to user reviews, the sen­sor read­ings will be quite accu­rate. With­out cal­i­bra­tion, they will be for ref­er­ence only — the man­u­fac­tur­er also warns about this.

Out­ward­ly, Geo­zon Viva Plus looks like an ordi­nary wrist­watch — this fea­ture will appeal to lovers of the clas­sics.

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3. No.1 DT08

Such watch­es are per­fect for those who love an active lifestyle, but want to under­stand how the body reacts to stress. This bud­get mod­el, sim­i­lar in design to the most expen­sive coun­ter­parts, has so many sen­sors that it’s not even a watch, but some kind of portable diag­nos­tic cen­ter. Plus a barom­e­ter, ther­mome­ter and com­pass are a nice addi­tion that will come in handy for any trav­el­er. By the way, the gad­get is alleged­ly designed for them.

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Anoth­er fea­ture is the size. These watch­es are quite large, even bru­tal. Girls who pre­fer more ele­gant giz­mos may not like it. Since No.1 DT08 are over­loaded with sen­sors, they mea­sure pres­sure only on com­mand. You should not trust the device, like a tonome­ter, but with its help you can always track devi­a­tions from the norm.

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4 Zeblaze Crystal 3

Per­haps, this is not only one of the cheap­est smart watch­es with which you can mea­sure pres­sure, but also one of the light­est. The gad­get is com­pact and almost invis­i­ble on the hand, and even old­er peo­ple who are not very friend­ly with tech­nol­o­gy can use it — all con­trols are intu­itive.

Those who have already test­ed the Zeblaze Crys­tal 3 say that every­thing is done right in this watch and with­out unnec­es­sary wis­dom. How­ev­er, noth­ing sur­pris­ing. After all, the device is very sim­i­lar to the expen­sive Apple Watch, only it costs sev­er­al times cheap­er. The man­u­fac­tur­er has equipped Zeblaze Crys­tal 3 with a new gen­er­a­tion opti­cal sen­sor. It helps to “read” the pres­sure and pulse rate. These watch­es also know how to mea­sure blood sat­u­ra­tion. They also have a sleep mon­i­tor­ing func­tion, a pedome­ter, and many oth­er “charms” that are manda­to­ry for any smart watch. A smart alarm clock, which oth­er mod­els lack so much, is also avail­able. Anoth­er plus is that the watch gives a sig­nal if the “own­er” moves a lit­tle.

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5. Irbis

Smart watch­es with a round dial will be a good alter­na­tive to con­ven­tion­al wrist watch­es, because their func­tion­al­i­ty is much wider. The LCD screen with a diag­o­nal of 1.28 (240 × 240) dis­plays one of the pre-installed dials, of which there are more than a hun­dred in the Da Fit appli­ca­tion.

The watch has built-in sen­sors need­ed to mea­sure heart rate and blood pres­sure. The his­to­ry of read­ings is stored in the appli­ca­tion and can serve as a self-obser­va­tion diary. A pedome­ter will help you eval­u­ate how you move every day, and a tan­gi­ble vibra­tion sig­nal will remind you that sit­ting for a long time is harm­ful.

The bat­tery capac­i­ty of this smart watch is 200 mAh. You can view noti­fi­ca­tions about calls, SMS, mes­sen­gers and con­trol A / D for 10 days with­out recharg­ing, at least the man­u­fac­tur­er claims this.

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How to choose a smartwatch with blood pressure measurement

The mar­ket offers a huge num­ber of smart­watch mod­els. How to fig­ure out which of them are real­ly wor­thy of atten­tion and which are not, if the set of func­tions for all is almost the same? For answers to the most com­mon ques­tions regard­ing these “semi-med­ical” gad­gets, Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da turned to Alex­ei Sigachev, the chief com­mod­i­ty expert of the inde­pen­dent exper­tise com­pa­ny Inves Con­sult­ing, and the head of the car­di­ol­o­gy depart­ment of the hos­pi­tal. V.V. Vino­gradov of the city of Moscow, can­di­date of med­ical sci­ences Denis Medvedev.

Popular questions and answers

What parameters should you pay attention to first of all?

The main thing to look for when choos­ing a smart watch with pres­sure mea­sure­ment is the man­u­fac­tur­er, I’m sure Alex­ey Sigachev.

- There are pro­fes­sion­al mea­sur­ing instru­ments, and there are toys for fun. If we choose smart watch­es to mon­i­tor our own health, they must be more or less spe­cial­ized. This means that the com­pa­ny pro­duc­ing it must know a lot about med­ical tech­nol­o­gy. Before buy­ing a gad­get, you can study the com­pa­ny’s web­site, see what else it pro­duces, whether it has an idea about med­ical equip­ment. Look at the man­u­fac­tur­er, not the brand. In Rus­sia, unfor­tu­nate­ly, brands that make semi-pro­fes­sion­al and pro­fes­sion­al smart watch­es with pres­sure mea­sure­ment are poor­ly pro­mot­ed.

It is also worth pay­ing atten­tion to the func­tion­al­i­ty. In such a small thing as a smart watch, it is dif­fi­cult to “fit” a lot of func­tions — there is not enough space. But the man­u­fac­tur­er is try­ing. And then it turns out that the clock works, as they say, on aver­age. What is the accu­ra­cy of blood pres­sure mea­sure­ment then talk­ing about?

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Price is also an impor­tant fac­tor. Pro­fes­sion­al mea­sur­ing devices are not cheap. If the price of a smart watch with pres­sure mea­sure­ment is low, then we are only deal­ing with an attempt to bring a bud­get gad­get clos­er to a med­ical device. It is also worth look­ing at the mois­ture pro­tec­tion index. The most com­mon val­ue is IP67. What­ev­er the man­u­fac­tur­er writes, they say, you can swim in such a watch — I do not advise. Such watch­es are def­i­nite­ly pro­tect­ed from splash­es and sweat, but you should not dive into them. If the index is even low­er, draw con­clu­sions.

Last but not least is the error in pres­sure mea­sure­ments. If it is indi­cat­ed on the pack­ag­ing, the smart watch is close to med­ical tech­nol­o­gy.

Can you trust smartwatch readings?

“If smart watch man­u­fac­tur­ers do not guar­an­tee the accu­ra­cy of mea­sur­ing results, then no, you should not trust their mea­sure­ments much,” the head of the car­di­ol­o­gy depart­ment of the hos­pi­tal named after. V.V. Vino­grado­va, ther­a­pist, car­di­ol­o­gist, can­di­date of med­ical sci­ences Denis Medvedev. — This is because the method of mea­sur­ing pres­sure on the device is dif­fer­ent from the tonome­ter. There­fore, it is not rec­om­mend­ed to use the indi­ca­tions of a smart watch, say, to adjust a treat­ment plan or take med­ica­tions. In my opin­ion, while this func­tion of mea­sur­ing pres­sure with most hand­held gad­gets is exper­i­men­tal. These hours should be for infor­ma­tion­al pur­pos­es only.

What to do if the smartwatch readings are implausible?

Accord­ing to an expert mer­chan­dis­er Alex­ey Sigachev, it is use­less to make claims against the sell­er or the man­u­fac­tur­er. If ini­tial­ly, with­out even indi­cat­ing the mea­sure­ment error of the gad­get, the com­pa­ny does not give any guar­an­tees that the read­ings will be cor­rect, it makes no sense to wave your hands and swear, after all, no one promised you any­thing.

“You need to under­stand under what con­di­tions the func­tion works,” says Sigachev. — All char­ac­ter­is­tics must be writ­ten down: sub­ject to this and that, the watch will cor­rect­ly mea­sure your pres­sure. And then the user can come and be indig­nant, they say I’m doing every­thing right, but “it does­n’t work.” But no one usu­al­ly pre­scribes any­thing like that. The only thing that can be advised is not to fix the smart watch tight­ly on the arm — the strap can pinch the ves­sels, and the read­ings will be incor­rect.

In addi­tion, the sen­sors them­selves, if they are of poor qual­i­ty, can lie — you can try to replace them. And you also need to make sure that dur­ing the mea­sure­ment of pres­sure they do not move, but are locat­ed strict­ly on the pulse. Plus, do not for­get that each per­son has veins in their own way, some­one has a full arm, some­one has a thin one — a cer­tain watch mod­el may sim­ply not be like one user, but become the best choice for anoth­er. I advise you to just choose more care­ful­ly.

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