Let’s fix hypertension for good
Cardiovascular diseases (CVS) are the leading cause of death and disability, affecting 32% of all global adults. Hypertension — the most important modifiable risk factor for premature CVS — is a significant medical condition that significantly increases the risks of heart, brain, kidney and other diseases.
Hypertension in data:
World Health Organization (WHO) figures show:
- An estimated 1.28 billion adults aged 30–79 years worldwide have hypertension;
- An estimated 46% of adults with hypertension are unaware of it;
- Less than half of adults (42%) with hypertension are diagnosed and treated;
- Approximately 1 in 5 adults (21%) with hypertension have it under control.
- WHO’s target is to reduce the prevalence of hypertension by 33% by 2030.
High BP, also called hypertension, is a condition which can be controlled to reduce the risk of a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular (CVS) diseases. According to the NHS, in the UK, there are about five million adults (one in every nine) who have high BP without even knowing it, since high BP itself rarely causes symptoms. The British Heart Foundation estimates that high BP causes over 50% of heart attacks and strokes. Therefore, a convenient and cost-efficient BP screening tool is essential to combat this silent killer.
Previous studies have shown that regular home BP monitoring across a population of 50,000 patients could prevent up to 500 heart attacks and 745 strokes over five years.
What is DocMe?
DocMe is an App that delivers self-driven and decentralised healthcare solutions through the prevention and self-management of lifestyle diseases using personalised, intuitive, consumer-focused and accessible innovations.
- Consumer Health Technology — The award-winning (InnovateUK) consumer technology performs in-home convenient blood pressure (BP) measurements from a 30s face video. It delivers advanced trend analysis and actionable insights that help combat hypertension (high BP) risks.
- Lifestyle Disease Self-Management — DocMe helps combat hypertension that affects nearly 1/3 of adults globally.
- Personal Health Record Management — DocMe advanced trend analysis helps healthcare professionals recognise underlying diseases earlier and more effectively than previous approaches.
- Wellness — DocMe can serve 40–60% of $1.5T of Wellness spending globally, of which cardiovascular health is of primary importance.
- Healthy ageing — by measuring, monitoring and managing lifestyle disease, we help people live longer life healthily.
We believe that the more informed people are about their health, the more empowered they are to take meaningful action.
How can DocMe help reduce the BP of the nation?
The DocMe app empowers people with our Consumer Health Technology to check Blood Pressure (BP) as simply as it is to take a selfie. Our app measures health vitals (BP, heart rate, heart rate variability and respiratory rate) and detects demographic data (age, sex and ethnicity) from a 30-second face video.
- With this, we perform advanced trend analysis and deliver actionable insights that help combat hypertension risks and promote wellness and healthy ageing.
- The longitudinal data is stored securely on-device for personal health record management and can be shared with healthcare professionals to identify underlying diseases earlier and more effectively than current alternatives.
The ubiquitousness of smartphones and the convenience of selfie technology make DocMe hypertension management a game changer.
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