Now you can check your blood pressure using your iPhone or iPad with two products that make it easy — download an app onto your iOS device, put on a blood pressure cuff, tap the touchscreen, and soon you have a blood pressure reading that you can track every day. They’re quick and reasonably priced, but are they accurate?
For my tests, I pitted the iHealth BP3 for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad against the Withings Blood Pressure Monitor, which also works with the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. Our family doctor’s been taking blood pressure readings for 30 years, so I figured he’d be a good one to give me his opinion about these devices. So I took both units to his office and comparing their readings with that of an old-fashioned manual blood pressure cuff in his skilled hands.
iHealth BP3
Like a conventional BP cuff, it's secured to the arm with Velcro.
With an iPad 2
In addition to the iPhone app, there's a free iPad app available.
Rear View
iPad and iPad 2 both fit.
Works with iPhone
Press Start to begin.
iHealth BP3
It's a charging station.
Rear View
That's a USB connector to charge the dock and your iOS device, too
Side View
There's the port for the air hose.
iHealth iPhone app
Clean interface, great graphic features, and you can share your results on Twitter and Facebook, as well as email.
This $99 iHealth BP3 blood pressure monitor also functions as a charging dock. I tested it with an iPad, iPad 2 and an iPhone 4, all of which fit easily into this attractive desktop unit. You plug the air hose into the side of the dock, and the other end is permanently attached to the blood pressure cuff.
The doctor showed me the proper way to use a blood pressure cuff, placing it about an inch above the elbow, and after...
