Which arm should the blood pressure measured be on, does its matter?
Many thanks
General fitness, health and nutrition · Public discussion
BP
This thread is locked and is currently read-only.
Thread details
What we know about this thread
- Original section
- General fitness, health and nutrition
- Published
- 17 December 2003
- Last activity
- 17 December 2003
- Original author
- Cb
- Posts
- 3
- Discussion status
- Public discussion
- Total views
- 575
- Views / 30 days
- 0
The navigation and discussion metadata provide context. Posts remain in their original chronological order.
-
-
The high reading is the one to consider, although a large difference between the two may indicate
other problems. The standard is: either arm. sitting for at least 5 minutes. cuff at the level of
the heart.Hope this helps! Patrick On Thu said:
Which arm should the blood pressure measured be on, does its matter?
Many thanks
--
~~~ Patrick Blanchard, M.D., A.B.F.P. Board Certified in Family Practice
familydoctor.orgblanchardOpen ↗ ~~~ SonoScore Winning against heart attack and stroke
sonoscore.comsonoscore.comOpen ↗ -
"CB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:
Which arm should the blood pressure measured be on, does its matter?
Both.
Quoted message said:
Many thanks
You are welcome.
Humbly,
Andrew
--
Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-Certified Cardiologist
heartmdphd.comheartmdphd.comOpen ↗
Active in the last 60 minutes
Active in this thread
0 users · 0 guests ·0 bots ·0 total
No signed-in users are active right now.
No known search crawlers active right now.