Accurate, Easy-to-Use Sphygmomanometer – “Arm-in Memo” Blood-Pressure Meter Developed Based on “Compliance with Measurement”

Yousuke Asou

doi:10.20965/jrm.2008.p0824

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doi: 10.20965/jrm.2008.p0824

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Accurate, Easy-to-Use Sphygmomanometer – “Arm-in Memo” Blood-Pressure Meter Developed Based on “Compliance with Measurement”

Yousuke Asou

Marketing Development and Planning Home Healthcare Products Group Terumo Corporation, 1-8-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Received:

January 10, 2008

Accepted:

June 30, 2008

Published:

December 20, 2008

Keywords:

metabolic syndrome, home blood pressure, compliance with measurement, communication, visualization

Abstract

The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and its seven related organizations, in announcing its diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome on April 8, 2005, demonstrated the importance of lifestyle change in minimizing the syndrome’s effects. Needless to say, the control required to change lifestyles is difficult to cultivate and to continue. We looked at how self-control is supported using a home-use sphygmomanometer, or blood-pressure meter, detailing an actual development case centering on the “compliance with measurement” concept.

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Yousuke Asou, “Accurate, Easy-to-Use Sphygmomanometer – “Arm-in Memo” Blood-Pressure Meter Developed Based on “Compliance with Measurement”,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.20, No.6, pp. 824-827, 2008.

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[1] [1] Healthy Japan 21, The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare,
http://www.kenkounippon21.gr.jp/index.html

[2] [2] The Journal of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, Vol.94, No.4, 2005.

[3] [3] Guideline Committee, 2003 European Society of Hypertension-European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension, J. Hypertensions, Vol.21, pp. 1011-1053, 2003.

[4] [4] T. G. Pickering, “Ambulatory monitoring and blood pressure variability,” New York: Science Press, 1991.

[5] [5] Y. Imai et al., “Predictive values of automated blood pressure measurement; What can we learn from the Japanese population – the Ohasama Study,” Blood Press Monit., Vol.6, pp. 335-339, 2001.