Dr. Roozbeh Jafari and his team from the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems has received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create an unobtrusive, wrist-worn, cuffless blood pressure monitor that a user can wear all night while asleep for constant readings. The proposed technology will be able to provide a wealth of information to physicians, help identify certain short-term dynamics and variations of blood pressure and allow effective monitoring of response to medication, among other things.
Read the full article by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station.