MBBS, MD - Internal Medicine, DM - Cardiology, Fellowship in EP
Cardiologist, Delhi
Try to keep systolic BP. Below 140 if age below 80, and below 150 if age is above 80
home recording is better way to manage BP than measuring in clinic, but home machines are slightly less accurate.
No, different digital machines has their own different error value. Check on your machine?s box, it must be written over there. Usually it is around +~3 mmhg.
We can consider it to be normal and in glucometer we check capillary blood and in laboratory we check venous blood and hence there is variation in reading of 10-20 points.
The majority of which are for use on the upper arm, although they also offer a small range of wrist-mounted monitors. Omron kindly sent us their BP786 monitor for review, which is the latest device in their popular "10 series.
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