Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using a regular-sized BP cuff for all adults regardless of mid-arm circumference can result in “striking” ...

Accurate Blood Pressure (BP) readings are vital for assessing cardiovascular health. A normal BP reading is usually around 120/80 mm Hg, whereas a reading at or above 130/80 mm Hg is considered high ...

What is Blood Pressure Monitoring? One of the most important and common tests done in the doctor’s office is the measurement of blood pressure. But, it is often undervalued and small inaccuracies in ...

To ensure BP readings are accurate, there’s a need for both a wider range of cuff sizes that match patients’ mid-arm circumference and more-consistent ways of measuring that circumference ahead of ...

Strong new evidence on the need to use an appropriately sized cuff in blood pressure (BP) measurement has come from the cross-sectional randomized trial Cuff(SZ). The study found that in people in ...

Using a "regular" size arm cuff with an automated blood pressure (BP) device for all adults resulted in inaccurate BP readings regardless of arm size, but especially in individuals with larger arms, ...

As with porridge, so with blood pressure: Just right makes all the difference. People whose mid-upper arm circumference exceeds 32 cm require larger cuffs than the standard size, but in many cases the ...

Apple could be planning to add a blood pressure measurement done through a stretchable cuff that may feature in the next Apple Watch releases, a recently disclosed patent revealed. The patent was ...

A new technology has been developed that enables cuffless noninvasive blood pressure monitoring by using ultrasonic to track ...

High blood pressure: Also referred to as hypertension, high blood pressure is a serious condition which occurs when the force of the blood being pumped out through your arteries is very large.