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We Stand By Our Blood Pressure Insights Feature
WHOOP transforms cutting-edge research into practical tools that drive human performance innovation. Blood Pressure Insights is designed to help our members understand how blood pressure relates to sleep, stress, recovery, and exercise. Recent FDA statements asserting Blood Pressure Insights must be reviewed as a medical device fail to acknowledge the fact that the feature is a wellness tool not intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition.
This interpretation is also inconsistent with the 21st Century Cures Act, which clarifies that functions intended to promote a healthy lifestyle — and unrelated to the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, prevention, or treatment of a disease or condition — are excluded from the definition of a medical device.
We've built Blood Pressure Insights on a foundation of rigorous data validation and peer-reviewed research to provide members information about their bodies and help unlock performance. Members are clearly informed through onboarding and in-app disclaimers that Blood Pressure Insights is not intended for medical decisions or as a substitute for clinical-grade monitors for diagnosing or treating clinical conditions.
WHOOP members have long been at the forefront of using data to improve performance. Heart rate, HRV, recovery score, stress score, respiratory rate, and many other metrics are used by Americans to better understand their wellness and improve their performance. Blood Pressure Insights continues that tradition. Our members are already finding ways to live and train better. We stand by Blood Pressure Insights and believe our members should be able to access data about their bodies.
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