Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking

The redesigned Oura app includes caller features to assistance users way and negociate their accent levels.

Oura is launching a redesigned app with expanded stress-tracking insights arsenic it develops caller humor unit features that could place signs of hypertension.

The updated Oura app volition present a caller Cumulative Stress diagnostic that provides a play overview of however the assemblage manages and recovers from sustained stress, drafting from sleep, bosom rate, temperature, and enactment data. The redesign, Cumulative Stress, and a caller accent absorption dashboard volition beryllium disposable connected iOS and Android globally “in the coming weeks,” according to Oura.

The institution besides announced that it’s moving with the FDA connected a humor unit survey that volition beryllium disposable for US members of its Oura Labs aboriginal entree level “in the coming months.” Its purpose is to make a diagnostic that tin “identify aboriginal signs of hypertension” — a word for abnormally precocious humor unit successful the humor vessels.

Study participants volition beryllium notified of their existent likelihood of hypertension by combining Oura Ring information with accusation collected via questionnaire astir household history, medication, and manner habits. Several Apple Watch models already enactment hypertension notifications aft the diagnostic cleared the FDA successful September.