Oura Ring brings unique cardiovascular health suite, bolstering app’s tracking ability

The Oura app has done a fine job of bringing surrounding data to basic health tracking, giving the user a well-rounded understanding of their health. The Oura Ring adds to that by bringing a cardiovascular age tool and a new cardio capacity reading.

Cardiovascular age will act as a way to check in on your heart age compared to your actual age with the Oura Ring, which can be a helpful way to look at your heart’s overall health. Certain factors can stress your heart out, even at a young age, and seeing that displayed through the Oura app – if accurate – will be extremely helpful.

Oura notes that the new tool works by “analyzing age-related observations within a photoplethysmograph (PPG) signal, which carries information about estimated arterial stiffness and pulse wave velocity (PWV).” The function will require 14 days of data to register a proper result. That result will either read above, below, or in alignment with your current age by a five-year margin.

Cardio capacity, on the other hand, is a supplemental reading that can be beneficial in combination with your blood oxygen reading. The capacity is how well the heart supplies oxygen to your muscles. Of course, the app will try to help you achieve a higher capacity. The Oura app will have users take a walking test to gather the correct data.

One interesting note about this addition is that one of Oura’s scientists began research on cardiovascular age because the Oura Ring‘s form factor allowed for pulse wave velocity readings. In essence, this new tech is completely unique to fitness tracking rings and Oura itself.

The new tools will be available to users towards the end of May.