The HUAWEI WATCH D2’s excellent blood pressure monitoring makes it the ideal gift this holiday season

The holiday season is right around the corner, and it’s the perfect time to de-stress, spend time with friends and family, take some well-deserved time off, and, more importantly, give and get gifts. Of course, no one wants to bring up health monitoring at family gatherings during the festive season, but unfortunately, health concerns don’t go on holiday. What if you can disguise it in the form of an excellent gift instead with a product that doesn’t look like any traditional health monitoring device?

That’s exactly what you get with the HUAWEI WATCH D2, a smartwatch like any other at first glance, but is also the world’s first ambulatory blood pressure monitoring smartwatch. With a slew of other health and fitness tracking features and excellent smartwatch capabilities, too, the HUAWEI WATCH D2 is the perfect gift this holiday season for parents, friends, family members, and anyone suffering from hypertension (high blood pressure). Here’s everything you need to know!

Why blood pressure monitoring is essential

Hypertension, commonly known as high blood pressure, is often the leading cause of a variety of chronic diseases and, if left untreated, can lead to chronic heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and eye problems. Around 30% of adults around the world suffer from hypertension. But because it doesn’t present any obvious symptoms, it is often left undiagnosed and untreated.

Regularly monitoring your blood pressure is essential, even if you are relatively fit and have no significant health concerns. Traditional monitoring either involves a trip to the doctor’s office or requires a bulky, at-home monitor that is inconvenient to set up and use. Neither option is particularly great if you’re looking for continuous, all-day monitoring.

That’s where the HUAWEI WATCH D2 comes in.

The HUAWEI WATCH D2 makes blood pressure monitoring a breeze

The WATCH D2 is the first and only ambulatory blood pressure monitoring smartwatch to pass the registration of Class II medical devices of the European MDR (Medical Device Regulation) and Chinese National Medical Products Administration certifications. While it may look like a traditional smartwatch with a large, rectangular display and bulky strap, its blood pressure monitoring feature is a true game changer.

With the HUAWEI WATCH D2 on your wrist, you don’t have to worry about carrying around and using traditional blood pressure monitoring devices with their cumbersome cuffs. And a blood pressure reading takes seconds instead of all the time you’ll need to set up the machine, put on the cuff, and take a reading.

The magic lies in the watch strap, where HUAWEI has incorporated an ultra-narrow mechanical airbag. Thanks to its blood pressure fusion algorithm, part of HUAWEI TruSense, the WATCH D2 provides medical-grade accuracy in blood pressure measurement while maintaining the look, feel, and convenience of a standard smartwatch.

You don’t have to carry any extra equipment like an arm cuff, and apart from its smartwatch design, making it one of the slimmest and lightest blood pressure monitors around, it also provides 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. It’s a great way to monitor blood pressure fluctuations throughout the day, and it can even take measurements while you’re sleeping.

You can set reminders for manual measurements throughout the day, or it set it up for automatic readings as often as every 15 minutes. And at night, the airbag automatically inflates smoothly and seamlessly in order to measure the blood pressure. All the data is conveniently stored on the Huawei Health app, so you can easily show current and historical data to your doctor. Whether you’re out and about, catching up on your favorite TV show, or enjoying a good night’s rest, there’s no reason why you won’t also be able to accurately monitor your blood pressure throughout.

The HUAWEI WATCH D2 is also an excellent health and fitness tracker

Unlike a traditional blood pressure monitor, the HUAWEI WATCH D2 is, of course, also a smartwatch. Beyond blood pressure monitoring, you also get a slew of other health-management and fitness-tracking tools, including ECG readings and robust sleep monitoring, with useful suggestions to help you improve the quality of your rest.

There’s also an incredibly useful Health Glance feature that allows you to perform “micro checkups” and generate comprehensive reports with a single tap. This feature lets you measure important indicators like your heart rate, blood oxygen, stress levels, skin temperature, vascular elasticity, pulse wave arrhythmia, and sleep breathing. Pulse Wave Arrhythmia Analysis helps detect irregular heartbeats and indicates the risk of issues like atrial fibrillation (AFib), while sleep breathing awareness detects interruptions in breathing during sleep and provides an assessment of apnea risk levels.

Lifestyle changes and developing healthy eating and exercise habits are key to fighting hypertension and a slew of other health risks, and the WATCH D2 can help with that as well. With more than 80 exercise modes, GPS tracking, step tracking, and daily activity goals, you can actively work towards getting your blood pressure under control.

You can control everything from the beautiful, large 1.82-inch AMOLED display, and its compact and lightweight form factor makes it comfortable for all-day wear. Speaking of all day, the HUAWEI WATCH D2 provides an impressive six days of battery life, even with regular blood pressure monitoring, and while using its many other features like Bluetooth calling, alarms, weather apps, and more.

The HUAWEI WATCH D2 is currently available for £349.99 (~$630) and is the perfect health companion gift this holiday season.