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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: JakeTse on 17/05/2018 10:00:02
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Ever since my Dad recovered from the heart attack caused by high blood pressure, we have been worrying that it would happen again. The doctor advised us to buy a blood pressure monitor so my Dad could track his blood pressure at home anytime. We asked him to recommend us the [<<<<<< Commercial spam removed >>>>>>>>was the choice. And later I searched on Google and found many reviews also ranked XXXXX as the best home blood pressure monitor. But I also see that a small portion of users complaining that it was not very accurate. So I am quite confusing. Has anyone used it and could you please leave your comments or do you have any other better options?
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There are quite a few blood-pressure monitors available; most of them will also report heart rate.
As well as blood pressure, some of them detect an irregular heart rate; this hints at heart problems like atrial fibrillation that often goes unnoticed - until it causes a heart attack or stroke.
If you want continuous monitoring, many of the modern heart rate tracking watches are a better option - they provide fine-grained measures of heart rate, 24 hours per day.
But at the current state of the art, 24-hour monitoring of blood pressure is not possible with direct-to-the-public devices. So you must settle for the cuff-style devices that take a 30-second snapshot of blood pressure.
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I use my wife's machine. She's a GP so she has one in her doctor's bag and it gets regularly calibrated, so I know it's reliable!
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The ones which go around your wrist are less accurate than the ones which go around your upper arm ...
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/expert-answers/wrist-blood-pressure-monitors/faq-20057802
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I've got builders in at the moment; I need one that goes around my wallet...
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I would never measure my blood pressure at home. It is not a controlled environment. If you measure it routinely when all is calm and quiet, the one day you are worried about something you will scare yourself with a "high" reading that is no more than a normal reaction to stress. You might die from a so-called preventable illness, but that's preferable to living in a state of constant hypochondria, and a lot more pleasant for your family and friends too.
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I would never measure my blood pressure at home. It is not a controlled environment.
This is really a very bad recommendation. Every expert on the subject nowadays agrees that home blood pressure monitoring is much better than office BPM.
I have heard a world leading expert on the subject (a university professor) say that office bpm is useless.
There are 2 well known reasons for this: white coat hypertension and masked hypertension.
Home bpm is preferable over office bpm for both diagnosis and follow-up.
But don't take my word for it: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16139119
Office blood pressure measurement (OBPM) yields higher blood pressure values than HBPM. For systolic blood pressure, differences between OBPM and HBPM increase with age and the height of office pressure. Differences also tend to be greater in men than in women and greater in patients without than in those with antihypertensive treatment. Furthermore, HBPM can diagnose normotension with almost absolute certainty; it correlates better with target organ damage and cardiovascular mortality than OBPM, it enables prediction of sustained hypertension in patients with borderline hypertension, and it proves to be an appropriate tool for assessing drug efficacy.
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I would never measure my blood pressure at home. It is not a controlled environment.
This is really a very bad recommendation. Every expert on the subject nowadays agrees that home blood pressure monitoring is much better than office BPM.
I have heard a world leading expert on the subject (a university professor) say that office bpm is useless.
There are 2 well known reasons for this: white coat hypertension and masked hypertension.
Home bpm is preferable over office bpm for both diagnosis and follow-up.
But don't take my word for it: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16139119
Office blood pressure measurement (OBPM) yields higher blood pressure values than HBPM. For systolic blood pressure, differences between OBPM and HBPM increase with age and the height of office pressure. Differences also tend to be greater in men than in women and greater in patients without than in those with antihypertensive treatment. Furthermore, HBPM can diagnose normotension with almost absolute certainty; it correlates better with target organ damage and cardiovascular mortality than OBPM, it enables prediction of sustained hypertension in patients with borderline hypertension, and it proves to be an appropriate tool for assessing drug efficacy.
I second this; white coat hypertension is real and can lead to profoundly misleading measurements of blood pressure. My blood pressure is borderline pathological when another healthcare professional takes it, but when I'm doing it myself at home, it's normal.
Differences like this can make the difference between ending up being medicated, or not.
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Some new approaches are described here that are more compatible with smartphones:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/measure-your-blood-pressure-using-just-your-phone
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Having been classed as ?pathological in an aviation medical, I was called up for a repeat BPM a week later and was pronounced normal. Doctor asked what had changed. I said "You are not wearing a short skirt and a big smile." Still flying 10 years later.
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I was called up for a repeat BPM a week later and was pronounced normal.
They may have missed a few other parameters.
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Oddly, there were only two questions about mental health (suicidal thoughts or treatment for depression) in the exam, and they have only recently been added - not that Lufthansa took any notice. I would add a third - "do you fly aerobatics?" and immediately disqualify anyone who says yes.
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Measurement at home in a state of relaxation is the ONLY way to get accurate readings. My bp was reading dangerously high( 180/110) in the surgery but at home it was normal and I assumed my measurement device had lost calibration. I brought my unit into the surgery and it measured the same high reading as the doctor/nurse. I could not believe such a difference could exist but it was real. This is not the case for everyone, some people will not show such a discrepancy.
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Yes, I can always measure my BP as normal at the doctor's office, simply because I have sat and deliberately relaxed for at least a half hour before in the waiting room. When I go in with high BP, he has pretty much known I was really ill. But on mild control, because it can be higher then normal, but despite being the same age, height and weight as him my dose is very much lower. Being a doctor is stressful, my first doctor there nearly dropped dead from a full blown coronary at 28, despite him being ultra fit, a runner, cyclist and in perfect health. Only thing that saved his life was that this was at the office, with a full set of other doctors there, good nurses, and the full set of necessary equipment to restart him, keep him oxygenated and get him to a hospital and on a table within 45 minutes. Still a doctor, but cut back a lot on his patients, and only works near home now.
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My average BP:
Measured by the NHS, 1985 to 15.9.20: 127
Measured at home, 15.9.20 - 26.5.22: 122
Measured by the NHS, 15.9.20 - 26.5.22: 151