Blood Pressure Insights - WHOOP Life for Well-Being

Blood pressure is a fundamental indicator of cardiovascular health. Blood Pressure Insights, available with WHOOP Peak and WHOOP Life memberships, provides daily estimations that help you understand how your behaviors influence your blood pressure trends. This feature uses data collected during sleep to provide consistent, wrist-based insights that complement your Sleep, Strain, and Recovery metrics.

What is Blood Pressure Insights?

Blood Pressure Insights provides daily systolic and diastolic blood pressure estimations on WHOOP Peak and WHOOP Life memberships. This patent-pending technology delivers these insights right from your wrist, helping you understand how blood pressure affects your performance and well-being.

How does it work?

WHOOP sensors measure heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), and blood flow patterns during sleep to estimate systolic and diastolic ranges upon waking. Since blood pressure fluctuates throughout the day, WHOOP focuses on a consistent time frame when your body is at rest. This approach minimizes interference from movement, stress, or caffeine.

Systolic and diastolic blood pressure are two key measurements that indicate the force of blood against your artery walls.

• Systolic blood pressure (the higher number) measures the pressure in your arteries when your heart beats and pumps blood.
• Diastolic blood pressure (the lower number) measures the pressure in your arteries when your heart is at rest between beats.

To calibrate your baseline, log three separate blood pressure measurements from a traditional cuff in the WHOOP app to unlock Blood Pressure Insights. Your readings personalize the feature and contribute to algorithm development. While the feature is in beta, expect updates that may impact your trends.

Your true estimate may be higher or lower as shown by the displayed range of blood pressure values. WHOOP estimates blood pressure once per day, so the value will not change during the day. The insights display in the Health tab of the WHOOP app.

Why does it matter?

Blood pressure is a key indicator of overall wellness with impacts on:

• Mental and physical performance
• Sleep: Sleep and blood pressure have a two-way relationship. Not getting enough quality sleep can affect your blood pressure, and higher blood pressure can make it harder to sleep well.
• Stress: Blood pressure can provide insights into your stress levels.

Blood Pressure Insights helps you understand how blood pressure affects these aspects of your wellbeing and performance. WHOOP was an early adopter of wrist-measured HRV, helping to popularize the metric for consumers. Blood Pressure Insights is the next frontier of understanding wellbeing and performance.

The science behind Blood Pressure Insights

WHOOP trained and validated a model for blood pressure estimation using data from thousands of users and sleep sessions. Data was recorded overnight, and blood pressure was measured shortly after waking to ensure accuracy and validate against cuff measurements. The model estimates morning systolic and diastolic blood pressure using PPG (photoplethysmography) pulse waveform throughout sleep, along with heart rate, recovery metrics, and demographic factors.

WHOOP analyzed internal data and existing literature to understand the associations between blood pressure, recovery, and well-being.

How to find Blood Pressure Insights

1. Open the WHOOP app and navigate to the Health tab
2. Tap Blood Pressure Insights to view the latest estimate
3. Scroll to see weekly, monthly, and 6 month trends to track patterns over time

Unlock a new era of health insights with WHOOP Life

WHOOP membership takes performance tracking to the next level with features including Blood Pressure Insights. Daily blood pressure estimations from your wrist give you a more complete picture of your health.

Frequently asked questions about Blood Pressure Insights

Can WHOOP measure your blood pressure?

Yes. Blood Pressure Insights, available with WHOOP Peak and WHOOP Life memberships, provides daily estimations of your systolic and diastolic blood pressure ranges. The feature uses data from the WHOOP sensor during sleep to give you a consistent look at your trends upon waking.

How reliable are Blood Pressure Insights?

Blood Pressure Insights is a wellness feature designed to help you track trends and understand correlations between your blood pressure and lifestyle. The feature's algorithm was trained and validated against traditional cuff measurements. For a more personalized experience, calibrate the feature by logging three cuff readings in the WHOOP app.

Is Blood Pressure Insights a medical device?

No. Blood Pressure Insights is intended for general wellness purposes only. It cannot be used to diagnose, treat, or manage any medical condition, including hypertension. Always consult your doctor for health concerns and do not change medication or treatment based on this information.

Who can access Blood Pressure Insights?

Blood Pressure Insights is available to all members with a WHOOP Peak or WHOOP Life membership.

Blood Pressure Insights is not a medical device and cannot diagnose or manage medical conditions. It does not provide medical advice. Always consult your doctor for health concerns and never delay or modify medical care based on its information.