The use of ambulatory tonometric radial arterial wave capture to measure ambulatory blood pressure: the validation of a novel wrist-bound device in adults

D Nair1, S-Y Tan1, H-W Gan1, S-F Lim1, J Tan1,
M Zhu2, H Gao2, N-H Chua3, W-L Peh3 and K-H Mak1,4
Journal of Human Hypertension advance online
publication, 8 November 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.jhh.1002306

Although ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring provides a better guide to the management of hypertension,1–4 these devices are cumbersome and inconvenient, and therefore not widely used.HealthSTATS International (Singapore) developed wrist-bound BP measurement device (BPro), which measures BP using arterial tonometry