Glossary

Telemedicine allows the measurement of body functions, in certain cases also the support of diagnoses and therapies even when doctor and patient are spatially separated. In everyday clinical work it can be used, among other things, for the registration and transmission of vital data such as pulse, blood pressure, blood sugar or lung function. The information is transmitted by the Internet, telephone networks or satellites. In the Blood Pressure Study the scientists used telemedical sets consisting of an upper arm blood pressure measurement device with Bluetooth® function and a mobile phone. The measurement devices transmitted the blood pressure values to the mobile phone, which then sent them in encoded form via a protected data line directly from the house of the study participants to the database of the NORAH scientists.

A tender is a special procedure for generating competing offers from different bidders looking to obtain an award of business activity in works, supply, or service contracts. In a public tender, a state or a community or authority declares a certain need, and calls on potential providers to make an offer.

Traffic noise is the unwanted sound from cars, aircraft or trains.