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Your whole body is affected when your blood pressure (BP) is consistently high. High blood pressure is equal to or greater than 140 over 90 mmHg, where the top number is a measure of the force in your arteries as your heart beats and pumps blood, and the bottom number is a measure of the force in your arteries as your heart is resting between beats.

Hypertension slowly damages blood vessels, which leads to complications down the line, but it often doesn't cause symptoms on its own or right away. It's crucial to detect hypertension before cardiovascular ailments make it undeniable.

Dr. Kazuomi Kario, professor and chairman of cardiovascular medicine at Jichi Medical University, addressed the potential to manage high blood pressure with technology in an article featured in the Journal of the American Heart Association:

Even though smartphone apps aren't yet useful on their own to monitor BP, Kario pointed to another promising technology: wearables. Recent studies showed that wearables are "validated and reliable" and "have been shown to perform well against current out-of-office BP measurement approaches." However, the onus is on the user to determine the best wearable and to use it properly.

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