Aktiia’s 24/7 blood pressure monitor automatically gathers over 100x the data and has over 10x the engagement of other blood pressure monitors.3 Aktiia’s optical sensor at the wrist measures around the clock, providing data that can be instantly viewed in a mobile app and easily shared with a physician or family member. Aktiia’s 24/7 Blood Pressure Monitor has already received the CE Mark as a Class Iia medical device and is currently available for sale in seven countries across Europe. To date, tens of thousands of units are in use and over 20 million readings have been captured. Aktiia’s new clinically integrated physician dashboard, launching in Europe in spring 2021, will allow the medical team to be dramatically more effective in patients’ hypertension diagnosis, monitoring and management.
In the United States, nearly 50% of adults, about 116 million people, have high blood pressure. Of these, up to 75% do not have their blood pressure under control. The rate of control is worsening, due in part to low patient engagement and lack of comprehensive data for physicians to properly diagnose and manage their patients. This ongoing hypertension epidemic is the number one cause of major cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke, and leads to more than half a million unnecessary deaths every year in the US alone. Aktiia’s automated approach removes the patient’s daily burden of cuff measurements and enables patients and their physicians to shift their focus to improving cardiovascular health by implementing and monitoring changes, rather than struggling to get the measurements necessary to understand the patient’s true condition.
Aktiia’s solution improves patient engagement, with current users checking their blood pressure on average 15 to 20 times per week, versus 1 to 2 times with traditional blood pressure cuffs. Cuffs require the patient to interrupt their day, while Aktiia’s solution automatically triggers 150 readings per week in multiple body positions, while awake and sleeping. It is the only solution able to measure a patient’s “time in range” – the percentage of time their blood pressure is within a healthy range. Recent large-scale studies have demonstrated that the more consistently a patient stays in their target blood pressure range, the lower their risk of heart attack and strokes.
Aktiia’s co-founders spent 17 years developing its game-changing technology, which has since been validated in multiple clinical studies. The results of Aktiia’s pivotal clinical trial have been peer-reviewed and published in highly regarded journals, including “Nature” and “Blood Pressure Monitoring.” In addition to endorsement by leading experts in hypertension management, Aktiia is now also an official partner of the International Society of Hypertension and the World Heart Foundation. With accuracy already proven, Aktiia has a further nine clinical trials underway, focused on demonstrating the clinical impact of its solution.
Now, Aktiia is coming to the United States via a landmark study with Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a top 10 hospital for cardiology with one of the world’s most innovative hypertension clinics. BWH’s Remote Hypertension Program has over 3,000 patients enrolled to date, and has demonstrated how more consistent at-home monitoring and digital interventions can lead to extraordinary improvements in rates of control across a broad demographic of hypertensive patients. Aktiia is sponsoring the COOL-BP (Continual vs. Occasional Long-Term BP) study within the Remote Hypertension Program, to be conducted by Dr. Naomi Fisher, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of BWH’s Hypertension Service, and a consultant and advisor to Aktiia.
Eighty-nine percent of wearable owners would like their physician to be able to utilize the data2, but existing consumer wearables have proven frustrating to patients and physicians alike. “Consumer wearables generally lack sufficient published validation, do not provide actionable clinical insights, and don’t integrate into our clinical workflow. Aktiia has been extensively validated and is trusted by both patients and physicians to be used as the basis for medical decisions,” said Aktiia Chief Medical Officer Jay B. Shah, Medical Director of Thoracic Aortic Diseases at the Mayo Clinic and faculty of Mayo Alix School of Medicine.
