Al-Sharify, Mushtaq T.

Al-Sharify, Talib A.

Al-Sharify, Zainab T.

Alshrefy, Zinah A.

Ghosh, Soumya

Hussein, Hussein Ali

Onyeaka, Helen

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Since December 2019, Millions of people around the world suffer from the effects of hypertension due to COVID 19 pandemic and all the stressed caused by this new virus. Around 40-50% of people worldwide can be assumed to have some form of hypertension especially after the pandemic lockdown. However, the advancement of using the new technologies, IoT and the E-learning during this lockdown period can support the education performance of the university students and continue their study without spreading the virus due to the direct contact with infected patients. This paper will study and compare the factors that contribute to hypertension which are caused by changes in systolic and diastolic blood pressure during this lockdown period. many students were surveyed and their blood pressures (BP)were monitored using automatic devices. The BP of undergraduate students during the lockdown period were identified as having higher systolic and diastolic readings however the results reflected no direct causation between stress and blood pressure, and rather were representative of the factors which will be studied further in this paper. The readings are compared with the definitions of hypertension according to the American Heart Association (AHA). A thorough understanding of the factors is important in the field of Internet of medical things (IoMT) medicine and therapy to help patients suffering from hypertension and to monitor this situation.</p

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IoT and E-learning with the Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic Lockdown on the Undergraduate University Student Blood Pressure Levels

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IoT and E-learning with the Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic Lockdown on the Undergraduate University Student Blood Pressure Levels

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