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Top blood pressure app was highly inaccurate

02-Mar-2016

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Instant Blood Pressure spent months as a top 5 app.

Claimed to measure blood pressure by users put their finger over the phone camera.

Study participants with low or high blood pressure given falsely normal values.

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Instant Blood Pressure

Medical app which measures blood pressure.

Timothy Plante

Assistant Professor at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.

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Blood Pressure