Medcity Pivot Podcast: Why Blood Pressure Monitoring in the New Era
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Hypertension remains one of the most common but uncontrolled conditions in the country, spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Despite the widespread existence of this disease, the basic methods for monitoring patients’ blood pressure have not changed much in the past century.
Coravie Medical attempts to address this problem by providing a continuous, easy alternative to cuff-based monitoring. In this Medcity Pivot podcast, initiated by Coravie, Coavie CEO Aimee Garza and Dr. Michael Bloch, a hypertension expert and clinical consultant at the startup, discusses why current monitoring methods often fail to capture meaningful blood pressure data, which is due to fluctuations and white graffiti, and how these coating effects make these indispensable measures difficult to make clinical decisions.
Coravie’s implantable device automatically collects patient data, including critical night readings, allowing for more accurate diagnosis and tailored treatments. Both Garza and Bloch believe the device's impact may be similar to the continuous glucose monitor, noting that Coravie's products can empower patients in daily life and improve drug management.
