Are you measuring your blood pressure correctly?

The harm of hypertension to human body has been widely recognized by people. Complications such as stroke, myocardial infarction and heart failure caused by this most common chronic disease not only cause disability and high mortality, At present, various methods and drugs for controlling hypertension emerge one after another, but this is not the focus of this article. This article just wants to talk about a more basic problem than controlling blood pressure: how to measure blood pressure correctly? I. Three Methods of Measuring Blood Pressure At present, clinic blood pressure, ambulatory blood pressure and family blood pressure are mainly used in clinical and population prevention work. 1. Clinic Blood Pressure The clinic blood pressure (CBP) uses mercury sphygmomanometer, which Read More …