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Doctors recommend the best blood pressure monitors for at-home use including the Omron Platinum Blood Pressure Monitor and more.
Checking your blood pressure has become simple with the Apple Watch, and doing this can help you identify trends and manage medications.
The best expert-approved blood pressure monitors to have on hand and everything you need to know about them.
The standard, one-size-fits-all blood pressure cuff can drastically distort blood pressure readings taken by automated blood pressure devices, a new study reveals.
Cuff-based blood pressure monitors (the 'gold standard') can underestimate systolic pressure, meaning many cases of high ...
A new study found an ill-fitting blood pressure cuff could make the difference between being accurately diagnosed with high blood pressure or not.
Once participants were seated properly, blood pressure measurements were started 5 minutes after cuff placement. Participants had three sequential automated blood pressure measurements, 30 seconds ...
Using standard-sized blood pressure cuffs, like those often included with home blood pressure monitors, can distort patients blood pressure readings, a new study finds ...
A cuff that is too snug or too loose on the mid-upper arm can lead to greatly exaggerated blood pressure measurements, results of a community-based study show. “If you need a large adult cuff and you ...
For as many as 18 million U.S. adults -- nearly 7% of adults -- at-home blood pressure cuffs are either too small or too large to provide reliable results, according to new findings.
Consumer Reports sees whether wrist-cuff blood pressure monitors are accurate. Wrist-cuffs may be a good choice for people who can't use an arm-cuff BP monitor.