Blood Pressure Measurements From Self-Service Health Kiosks in US Retail Stores, 2017-2024

What is the distribution of blood pressure (BP) measurements in a convenience sample of US adults who used self-service health kiosks at retail locations?Of the 1.3 million users of health kiosks between 2017 and 2024, nearly one-half self-reported a hypertension diagnosis. Among those who self-reported a hypertension diagnosis, nearly one-third had high blood pressure.Results reveal that a large number of US adults use self-service health kiosks at national retail locations to measure their BP, particularly demographic groups traditionally underrepresented in research, highlighting opportunities for population monitoring of high BP.

Corresponding Author: Jithin Sam Varghese, PhD, Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, 1516 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta GA, 30329 (jvargh7@emory.edu).

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