BloodPressureRecord: Health Connect blood pressure data

What Google says BloodPressureRecord is

Captures the blood pressure of a user. Each record represents a single instantaneous blood pressure reading.

Quoted from Google’s BloodPressureRecord Jetpack reference, last updated 2026-06-24, read 2026-10-03.

Class

androidx.health.connect.client.records.BloodPressureRecord

Google's category

Vitals

Record type

Instantaneous

Unit class

androidx.health.connect.client.units.Pressure

Mandatory fields

systolicdiastolicbodyPositionmeasurementLocationmetadatatime

Added in (Jetpack)

1.1.0

Permissions

The exact strings Google’s data-types table declares for BloodPressureRecord. Google’s page: “Before requesting any permissions, your app must declare them in the manifest.”

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.READ_BLOOD_PRESSURE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.health.WRITE_BLOOD_PRESSURE" />

import androidx.health.connect.client.permission.HealthPermission
import androidx.health.connect.client.records.BloodPressureRecord

val permissions = setOf(
    HealthPermission.getReadPermission(BloodPressureRecord::class),
    HealthPermission.getWritePermission(BloodPressureRecord::class),
)

The 7 fields of BloodPressureRecord

Types and descriptions as Google’s reference prints them. The range column quotes Google’s own range annotation or sentence; a dash means Google states none, which is not the same as no validation.

Aggregate metrics

The AggregateMetric constants Google defines on BloodPressureRecord. The value type is the T in Google’s AggregateMetric<T> signature. Every aggregate metric across all records.

Google’s read-data guide: “For cumulative types like StepsRecord, use aggregate() instead of readRecords() to avoid double counting from multiple sources and improve accuracy.” and “The aggregation API also contains logic to handle duplicate records, and lessens the chances of rate limiting.”

Constants

The 10 const val values Google’s reference lists on BloodPressureRecord, with the integer each maps to.

Read BloodPressureRecord in Kotlin

The shape of Google’s own read example, with BloodPressureRecord and its names filled in. Get the client with HealthConnectClient.getOrCreate(context) after checking getSdkStatus.

import androidx.health.connect.client.HealthConnectClient
import androidx.health.connect.client.records.BloodPressureRecord
import androidx.health.connect.client.request.ReadRecordsRequest
import androidx.health.connect.client.time.TimeRangeFilter
import java.time.Instant

suspend fun readBloodPressure(
    client: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant,
): List<BloodPressureRecord> {
    val response = client.readRecords(
        ReadRecordsRequest(
            BloodPressureRecord::class,
            timeRangeFilter = TimeRangeFilter.between(startTime, endTime),
        )
    )
    // One page of up to pageSize records (default 1000); follow
    // response.pageToken for the rest.
    return response.records
}

import androidx.health.connect.client.HealthConnectClient
import androidx.health.connect.client.records.BloodPressureRecord
import androidx.health.connect.client.request.AggregateRequest
import androidx.health.connect.client.time.TimeRangeFilter
import java.time.Instant
import androidx.health.connect.client.units.Pressure

suspend fun aggregateBloodPressure(
    client: HealthConnectClient,
    startTime: Instant,
    endTime: Instant,
): Pressure? {
    val response = client.aggregate(
        AggregateRequest(
            metrics = setOf(BloodPressureRecord.DIASTOLIC_AVG),
            timeRangeFilter = TimeRangeFilter.between(startTime, endTime),
        )
    )
    // get() is declared as returning a nullable value.
    return response[BloodPressureRecord.DIASTOLIC_AVG]
}

Setting up the client, the permission flow and Play Console declaration: integrating Health Connect step by step.

HealthKit counterpart

No verified HealthKit counterpart. The cross-platform matrix only pairs metrics checked against both Apple’s and Google’s documentation, and BloodPressureRecord is not among them yet. A similarly named Apple type may exist on the HealthKit reference, but a name match is not a verified mapping.

The metric on other platforms

This guide lists BloodPressureRecord beside the types on the other platforms this site covers whose own descriptions name the same metric, each quoted, with how each one is read.

• Blood Pressure API: How to Read BP Data In Your App

Questions

What permission does BloodPressureRecord need?

Google's Health Connect data-types table (read 2026-10-03) declares android.permission.health.READ_BLOOD_PRESSURE for reading BloodPressureRecord and android.permission.health.WRITE_BLOOD_PRESSURE for writing it, and says apps must declare permissions in the manifest before requesting them.

Which aggregate metrics does BloodPressureRecord support?

Google's Jetpack reference defines 6 on BloodPressureRecord: DIASTOLIC_AVG (AggregateMetric<Pressure>), DIASTOLIC_MAX (AggregateMetric<Pressure>), DIASTOLIC_MIN (AggregateMetric<Pressure>), SYSTOLIC_AVG (AggregateMetric<Pressure>), SYSTOLIC_MAX (AggregateMetric<Pressure>) and SYSTOLIC_MIN (AggregateMetric<Pressure>). Pass them in the metrics set of an AggregateRequest and read each back from the AggregationResult.

What values does BloodPressureRecord.diastolic accept?

Google's reference types diastolic as Pressure. Its description reads: "Diastolic blood pressure measurement, in Pressure unit. Required field. Valid range: 10-180mmHg. For SDK extension 17 or higher, Valid range: 10-300mmHg."

Is BloodPressureRecord an interval, instantaneous or series record?

Google's data-types table lists BloodPressureRecord as Instantaneous, and defines that column as indicating "whether the data is recorded at an instant in time or over an interval". Its mandatory fields are systolic, diastolic, bodyPosition, measurementLocation, metadata and time.