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Hopkins Study Finds Popular Blood Pressure App Wildly Inaccurate (jamanetwork.com)

Posted by timothy on from the yeah-ok-but-that's-only-one-kind-of-error dept.

An anonymous reader writes to point out a software review of the kind you can't generally find in an app store. A group from Johns Hopkins checked the accuracy of the Instant Blood Pressure app, which has sold more than 148,000 copies, and purports to measure blood pressure with just an iPhone -- no cuff required -- and found it wanting, to put it mildly. In the researcher's study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the app missed elevated blood pressures four out of five times.

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  1. Re:Measure blood pressure with just an iPhone? by arielCo · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Instant Blood Pressure app (IBP; AuraLife) estimates blood pressure (BP) using a technique in which the top edge of the smartphone is placed on the left side of the chest while the individual places his or her right index finger over the smartphone’s camera.

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    I guess it's more accurate than rolling fair dice or plucking daisies.

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