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Review
. 2018 Aug 23;18(9):2772.
doi: 10.3390/s18092772.

Recent Research and Developing Trends of Wearable Sensors for Detecting Blood Pressure

Toshiya Arakawa  1
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Review

Recent Research and Developing Trends of Wearable Sensors for Detecting Blood Pressure

Toshiya Arakawa. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

Blood pressure is considered an index to measure a person's health or state. The IEEE published a standard for wearable cuffless blood pressure measuring devices, which was certified as IEEE1708 on 26 August 2014, and, according to this standard, the development of wearable devices based on blood pressure is expected in the future. Considering this, blood pressure should be detectable all the time and everywhere, and this can help improve health consciousness. In this review, we introduce the recent development of wearable blood pressure measuring devices and research trends, and present the future prospects for blood pressure measuring devices.

Keywords: IEEE1708; blood pressure; cuffless; health; wearable.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
Number of patents for cuffless blood pressure monitors.
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Figure 2
Steering-type blood pressure monitoring system by Arakawa et al.: (a) front view of the system and (b) side-on view of the system from the right.
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Figure 3
Block chart of the developed system.
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Figure 4
(a) Schema of the blood pressure pulsation and time course and (b) schema of the photoplethysmographic pulsation and time course.
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Figure 5
Flow chart estimating continuous blood pressure using a photoplethysmogram.
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Figure 6
Appearance of the developed system and tablet interface.
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Figure 7
Prototype sensor that can measure blood pressure with ultrasonic sonar by Arakawa et al.: (a) the hardware system and (b) graphical user interface on measuring with this system, where the upper graph shows the time-series data of blood pressure.
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