Wrist Blood Pressure Monitors

3 Health Factors That Could End Your Life Today…

Your chance of having a debilitating or fatal stroke or heart attack is greatly increased if you suffer from any or all of the major risk factors listed below:

• Your cholesterol level is high.
• You smoke – cigarettes or cigars.
• You have high blood pressure or hypertension.

High cholesterol and smoking also cause or worsen high blood pressure. By attending to these two problems you have a good chance of controlling your blood pressure.

More than 30% of Americans over the age of 18 suffer from some form of high blood pressure. Hypertension is classified according to different degrees of severity. From mild pre-hypertension through to full blown stage 2 hypertension.

If you are not American don't be lulled into a false sense of security. The figures of those suffering from high blood pressure throughout the rest of the world do not differ in any great detail from the American statistics.

The most startling thing of all is that at least a third of those with hypertension receive no treatment for it whatsoever. Mainly because they don't know they are suffering from it.

Hypertension often occurs with no symptoms. You don’t feel any different. So you don’t know anything is wrong… often until it is too late.

It is not called the “silent killer” without reason. There is no warning. You may have had it for years without incident. And then, one day it strikes. And its blow can be deadly. The only evidence of its build up uncovered at your post mortem.

What You Must Do Today

• Stop smoking – you know you should have done that years ago… don’t you?
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• Check your blood pressure… now! Don’t wait.
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• And while you are getting your blood pressure checked get your cholesterol checked out as well.

If you can’t get in to see your Doctor or health professional today go to your nearest pharmacy. They will be able to check your blood pressure for you.

If your blood pressure is fine don’t just breathe a sigh of relief, sit back and relax.

Be Proactive – Buy The Best Blood Pressure Monitor For Home Use You Can Afford.

Get yourself a home blood pressure monitor.

And take your pressure on a regular basis.

When it comes to getting the best home blood pressure monitor you can probably do no better than buying a wrist blood pressure monitor.

Taking blood pressure at home is the easiest and most convenient way of keeping track of your blood pressure.

Learn How To Measure Blood Pressure At Home

Compare the readings you get with the ones your Doctor gets. There may be a difference. This difference may come about for one of two reasons.

• When you go to your Doctor there is always a certain amount of stress associated with the visit. And when your Doctor measures your blood pressure this stress can cause the reading to be higher than it should be. This is known as the white coat effect and it can affect your blood pressure to such an extent that the results obtained show you to be in a hypertensive category higher than you probably are.
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• Although home blood pressure monitors are now very sophisticated and accurate there can still be a difference in readings between your machine and your Doctor’s. To get around this you should take your machine to your Doctor’s rooms and have him take your blood pressure with both yours and his. In this way you will be able to calibrate your machine to his.

Doctors used to frown on the use of home monitors.

Earlier models of these products were not as accurate as they should have been.

Manufacturers of these devices were also invading territory that had traditionally be the sole preserve of the medical profession. So there was reluctance on the part of the medical fraternity to take these machines seriously.

Things have changed however.

Digital Blood Pressure Monitor Accuracy

The accuracy of home blood pressure monitors is now very good as well as consistent.

And the current types of automatic wrist blood pressure monitors are no exception.

Gradually Doctors are beginning to accept these machines have a role to play and can in fact make their lives easier.

By providing them with more accurate information Doctors can prescribe better treatment.

Many modern blood pressure machines will record and store your results. You can then take them to your doctor for him to analyze.

The Best Blood Pressure Machine For Home Use

Deciding to measure your blood pressure at home is one thing, but there are so many different types and makes "out there" which do you choose?

• There is the mercury sphygmometer, the original device for measuring blood pressure. But this requires a stethoscope and the knowledge of what to listen for.
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• There are digital machines where you fit the cuff to your upper arm and manually pump it up to a sufficiently high pressure to allow it to capture your systolic and diastolic readings as it deflates.
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• There are also digital machines which, apart from you fitting the cuff to your arm, do the rest of the measuring of blood pressure automatically. One of the drawbacks with this type of monitor is the size of the cuff. If you have particularly large upper arms you may need a size of cuff that is not standard and therefore did not come with the machine.

Portable wrist blood pressure monitors, on the other hand, don't have this problem. Being made for wrists these monitors will fit fat and thin people alike.

Smaller and easier to use, monitors of this type are also very accurate as well as being extremely affordable.

Most Accurate Blood Pressure Monitor

A study done in Switzerland showed the Omron wrist blood pressure monitor to be more accurate than the mercury sphygmometer, the very standard by which most Doctors will judge a digital automatic blood pressure monitor, including wrist blood pressure monitors.