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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45175-2
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC2001100]
- Suzhou New District Health Technology Plan [2016Z001]
- Suzhou Wuzhong Innovation Talent Award [WC201625]
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We introduce a novel paradigm to unobtrusively and optically measure blood pressure (BP) without calibration. The algorithm combines photoplethysmography (PPG) waveform analysis and biometrics to estimate BP, and was evaluated in subjects with various age, height, weight and BP levels (n = 1249). In the young population (<50 years old) with low, medium and high systolic blood pressures (SBP, <120 mmHg; 120-139 mmHg; >= 140 mmHg), the fitting errors are 6.3 +/- 7.2, -3.9 +/- 7.2 and -20.2 +/- 14.2 mmHg for SBP respectively; In the older population (>50 years old) with the same categories, the fitting errors are 12.8 +/- 9.0, 0.5 +/- 8.2 and -14.6 +/- 11.5 mmHg for SBP respectively. A simple personalized calibration reduces fitting errors significantly (n = 147), and good peripheral perfusion helps to improve the fitting accuracy. In conclusion, PPG may be used to calculate BP without calibration in certain populations. When calibrated, it shows great potential to serially monitor BP fluctuation, which can bring tremendous economic and health benefits.
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