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  1. Many individuals suffer from ailments such hypertension that require frequent health monitoring. Unfortunately, current technology does not possess the ability for unobtrusive, continuous monitoring. This paper proposes estimation of pulse pressure based on pulse transient time determined from one non-contact, and one contact sensor: Doppler radar for non-contact detection of heart beat, and piezoelectric finger pulse sensor. The time delay between heart beat and finger pulse was determined using MATLAB software, and pulse wave velocity (PWV) was calculated. Finally, subjects' pulse pressure estimated using PWV was found to be in good agreement with pulse pressure measured using an off the shelf sphygmomanometer by reading and taking difference of systolic and diastolic blood pressure. 
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