“One of my hopes is that this will help inform patients as to how to do this on their own and also to tell their health care ...

Certain commonly used arm positions may result in inaccurately high blood pressure readings and lead to a misdiagnosis of ...

A new study found that having your arm in the wrong position during blood pressure checks — either at home or the doctor’s ...

The researchers found that when people had their arms hanging by their sides during the reading, their systolic pressure was ...

An inaccurate reading due to poor arm position could lead to misdiagnosis of high blood pressure or unnecessary treatment. As ...

Researchers concluded that improper arm position could result in 40 to 54 million people being misclassified as having hypertension.

A new study found that having your arm in the wrong position during blood pressure checks — either ... of Medicine and medical director of the pediatric hypertension program at Johns Hopkins ...

Investigators suggest that not following arm support guidelines during blood pressure screening could have a substantial ...

The pediatric cardiology innovations include monitoring systems, handheld devices for imaging and diagnostics, and a ...

A study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers concludes that commonly used ways of positioning the patient's arm during ...