Worried about your blood pressure? A $399 Ring measures it without a cuff

dieselgate wrote: post #4

That's A LOT of continuous time-series data and really makes me wonder how much is necessary. I check my blood pressure maybe once a week.

Blood pressure is a major input into the risk equations for heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and so on. For the most part we've used a one-time measurement, assuming it's an average. But if we had a time-series of blood pressure, I could see blood pressure variability actually becoming an important metric.

Re: Worried about your blood pressure? A $399 Ring measures it without a cuff

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Post by dieselgate » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 8:58 PM UTC

brandonb wrote: post #5

dieselgate wrote: post #4

That's A LOT of continuous time-series data and really makes me wonder how much is necessary. I check my blood pressure maybe once a week.

Blood pressure is a major input into the risk equations for heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and so on. For the most part we've used a one-time measurement, assuming it's an average. But if we had a time-series of blood pressure, I could see blood pressure variability actually becoming an important metric.

I agree with you and understand completely. It just seems more an "as-needed" item that'd be "prescribed" by a medical professional rather than a consumer-facing gadget.