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Blood-pressure monitors.(Product/Service Evaluation)
We tested 16 monitors and found that automatic arm models worked best; most wrist models lagged way behind.
There's a virtual epidemic of hypertension, or high blood pressure, in the U.S., and treatment efforts are falling woefully short. At least 40 to 50 percent of adults have either full-blown hypertension or borderline hypertension, which is more dangerous than previously believed. Researchers project that up to 90 percent of all Americans will eventually develop the full-scale disorder. Of those who already have hypertension, an estimated 75 percent or so do not have it under control.
For most people with hypertension and many with the borderline ...
- Microlife's Home Blood Pressure Monitors Proven Accurate Even for Critical...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 2, 2007 700+ words
...devices for home blood pressure monitoring has...published in "Blood Pressure Monitoring...Microlife's upper arm monitors are shown to...Microlife's upper arm monitors are the first...devices to measure blood pressure accurately against...
- Blood pressure monitoring devices: accurately monitoring your blood pressure...
- Magazine article from: Focus on Healthy Aging April 1, 2006 700+ words
...on their features, blood pressure monitors usually cost...itself may raise your blood pressure slightly. Wrist monitors...easier to use than arm monitors but tend to be less...for you? "A home blood pressure monitor should be affordable...
- Key Challenges and Issues facing the World Blood Pressure Monitoring &...
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 9, 2008 700+ words
...Automated BP Monitors I-5 Blood Pressure Transducers I-5 II...Significance of Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring II-2 Digital...Popular II-3 Upper-Arm Monitors Integrated with Multiple...Professionals II-3 Public Blood Pressure Monitoring Program...
- Blood pressure-measuring device eliminates "white coat effect": the new BpTRU...
- Magazine article from: Heart Advisor Vidt, Donald November 1, 2008 700+ words
A new method of taking patients' blood pressure and getting more accurate readings...of the year, records three to five blood pressure readings over the course of five minutes...experience this effect, in which their blood pressure and anxiety rise when a nurse or doctor...
- High Blood Pressure; Diagnosis.
- Newspaper article from: NWHRC Health Center - High Blood Pressure March 16, 2005 700+ words
...care professional should check your blood pressure at least once every two years. A high blood pressure diagnosis based on the average of two...screening. The only way to check your blood pressure is to measure it using a device called...
- High blood pressure (essential hypertension).(Disease/Disorder overview)
- Clinical Reference Systems January 1, 2006 700+ words
...hypertension? Hypertension is the term for blood pressure that is consistently higher than normal...primary when no cause for the high blood pressure can be found. (When the cause of...About 95% of all people with high blood pressure have essential hypertension. Normal...
- Blood pressure assessment guidelines and recommendations. (Tech Brief).
- Magazine article from: American Fitness Roberts, Scott January 1, 2002 700+ words
...Americans (one in four adults) has high blood pressure. Unfortunately, 31.6 percent are...Furthermore, of all people with high blood pressure, 14.8 percent are not in therapy...are in adequate therapy. With high blood pressure being such a widespread problem in...
- High blood pressure and kidney disease.(Pamphlet)
- Newspaper article from: Pamphlet by: National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse July 1, 2001 700+ words
* What is high blood pressure? * How does high blood pressure hurt my kidneys? * How will I know whether I have high blood pressure? * How will I know whether I have kidney damage? * How can I prevent high blood pressure from damaging my kidneys...
