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Old 06-23-2009, 10:40 PM
walterclark
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Default Blood pressure monitor (F)

My husband suffers from high blood pressure, but refuses to see a doctor. I've purchased a home blood pressure monitor
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that tracks results for up to three weeks. While I think the home monitor is a great guide, I'm not sure I trust its accuracy. Does anyone know if home blook pressure monitoring kits are considered accurate, and are there any operation tips you can suggest to improve accuracy? Thanks!
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Old 06-24-2009, 02:23 AM
abrahamalegre
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My friend have had both and found the wrist monitor worked better. If you don't put the band on the arm in the right spot you will not get an accurate reading. Also make sure you get a self inflating one rather than one you have to pump yourself. My friend thinks wrist is better. He uses the Mark of Fitness wrist monitor and have found it to have better readings than the cuff arm band. Readings will always be different than those outside the home (such as doctors office). Factors play into that such as nerves, stress, etc. As long as your readings are normal and close to the doctor's readings you are ok.
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Old 06-24-2009, 02:55 AM
Samual
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We've always been told by doctors to never take our own home blood pressure readings into consideration at all.

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Old 06-28-2009, 11:24 PM
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Old 12-17-2010, 05:43 AM
mgreenb1
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I bought a blood pressure lo from bloodpressurelog.net I record my blood pressure for a year with that thing then I called the health dept for 6 month check ups but at least I can show them what my normal blood pressure is and it gives me piece of mind because it has the "normals" in the log and I can compare mine to that. [
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