Blood pressure shows the force of blood pushing against your artery walls. High blood pressure (hypertension) can increase ...

It turns out there are a lot of factors that can distort blood pressure measurements that you take at home, including the ...

If your arm isn’t correctly positioned for a blood pressure reading, you can get a number that is falsely high. To get the most accurate reading, your arm should be supported on a flat surface ...

Simply reverse the sides to take a blood pressure in your right arm. 1. Locate your pulse. ... The lower edge of the cuff should be about 1 inch above the bend of your elbow.

Some arm positions during blood pressure checks may lead to inaccurate readings, new study finds. ... “When the arm is lower than heart level, readings are artificially higher; if ...

And, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine, the all-too-common practice of having your arm in a position lower than your heart can raise your systolic blood pressure reading (the ...

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Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine say accurate blood pressure readings depend on proper arm positioning — and many patients and practitioners are getting it wrong.

HealthDay News — Commonly used arm positions (lap and side) for measuring blood pressure (BP) can overestimate readings, according to a study published online October 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

High blood pressure is 130 and up ... They took the patients’ blood pressure with the arm hanging down by ... Readings taken with arm resting on a table were consistently up to 7 points lower.

But researchers found that clinicians often measure blood pressure while patients are seated on an exam table with little, if any, arm support. For the study, they recruited 133 adults from age 18 ...

According to the study results, an arm in the patient’s lap can raise the top number in a blood pressure reading, known as systolic pressure, by almost 4 mmHg.