If you have a number of medical conditions you take your BP multiple times a day

.. so will this watch let you not do that ? or will it take your BP automatically ?

I honestly still don't get it, no negativity intended.

Its much easier than carrying a blood pressure monitor around which you have to get out of it's cary case etc.

You can just hit the button and take the obs (the bp reading)

I think that to get accurate measurement you still need to sit down, rest a bit and put your wrist on some support relaxed on the heart level.

I was just about to ask the same thing.

It's not that blood pressure reading aren't useful, it's just that this is marketed as a "fitness watch" and not a general blood pressure tool.

Now I have seen some suggestion that blood pressure could be used to predict how hard you can train on a given day in the same way that heart rate variability can be used. That's really interesting.

A blood pressure reading on it's own though, without any clever interpretation, seems much less compelling in a sports product.

If this is just marketing to make blood pressure monitors more "sexy" I guess that's fine too just less interesting if you have an actual sports goal in mind.

Is there a known relationship between blood pressure and ability to train?

I seem to remember an Italian product that claimed just that a few years back. They had some linked studies.

They used to advertise a version that could use any Bluetooth monitor too.

Sorry can’t seem to find page now but as soon as I find it I’ll reply with a link.

Hypertension or high blood pressure can affect all age groups (I was diagnosed at 17) but more prevalent from middle-age on wards.

Use case is that having a wrist watch measure your BP, can make it super-easy to monitor. Right now I have a digital one at home but hardly any motivation to use it. BP is well managed with a bit of exercise and medicine so I am hoping the watch will be useful (not withstanding all the questions about accuracy).

I'd say like anything health related you want to see changes over time. If something suddenly changes for the worse you know something new is going on.

That's why I like have access to consistent health care in my country. Something like an overall rise in blood pressure isn't necessarily something a person will notice. High blood pressure is described as the "silent killer".

The first image you see on the page that has people in it (rather than their hands) is indicative of the target market: middle-aged men with tan coats who feel happy when walking on rocky beaches with a happy middle-aged woman hugging their arm.

I'd say very useful for a 50+ demo that wants to check easily