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OW22

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Sep 3, 2006
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Has anyone used the new watches long enough for the hypertension function to start giving results? It's interesting to hear how this will work. It will be no good for someone like me who had a heart attack a couple of years ago and is on blood pressure meds and has to monitor BP. But I can really see this being useful for younger people, maybe in their 30s or 40s, who wouldn't even think about hypertension, and the Watch could alert them of possible high BP and prompt them to see their Doc and take action now, which is key. If you can tackle HT early, you save yourself so many issues later on in life. That's the great thing about these smartwatches; they can provide trends on heart rate, Heart variability, ECG, and now BP alerts as well. All of this could save lives, or at the very least, prompt early action to prevent possible future issues.
 
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Has anyone used the new watches long enough for the hypertension function to start giving results? It's interesting to hear how this will work. It will be no good for someone like me who had a heart attack a couple of years ago and is on blood pressure meds and has to monitor BP. But I can really see this being useful for younger people, maybe in their 30s or 40s, who wouldn't even think about hypertension, and the Watch could alert them of possible high BP and prompt them to see their Doc and take action now, which is key. If you can tackle HT early, you save yourself so many issues later on in life. That's the great thing about these smartwatches; they can provide trends on heart rate, Heart variability, ECG, and now BP alerts as well. All of this could save lives, or at the very least, prompt early action to prevent possible future issues.
it needs 30 days ... so be patient
 
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