{"id":497294,"date":"2026-06-13T05:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/497294\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:43:25","slug":"apple-watch-hypertension-feature-wins-fda-nod-roll-out-next-week-bloomberg-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/497294\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch hypertension feature wins FDA nod, roll-out next week, Bloomberg reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Apple will roll out a hypertension detection feature on its smartwatch next week after receiving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance on Sept 11, Bloomberg News reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Apple and the FDA did not immediately respond to Reuters\u2019 requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The company unveiled a blood pressure monitor in its latest Apple Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/united-states\/apple-unveils-iphone-17-air-amid-ai-race-and-tariff-pressures?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">at its Sept 9 event<\/a>, where it also introduced a refreshed iPhone line-up, including a slimmer iPhone Air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The feature, pending regulatory approval, will not detect every case of high blood pressure, but could alert about a million people, Apple said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Available in 150 countries, the tool will use data from the watch\u2019s optical heart sensor to track how a user\u2019s blood vessels respond to heartbeats over 30 days, the report said, citing Apple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The feature will be available on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 and Series 11, as well as its more expensive Ultra 2 and Ultra 3 smartwatches, Bloomberg News said. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple will roll out a hypertension detection feature on its smartwatch next week after receiving US Food and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[203,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-497294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}