Body position: Readings should be taken while the patient is seated with their back supported, feet flat on the floor, and arm supported at heart level. Sitting on an exam table without back support ...

Proper blood pressure measurement requires supporting your arm at heart level and resting before taking the reading for ...

Sit quietly for at least five minutes before taking the first reading, and do not talk during the reading. At the first visit ...

A new study finds that the way your arm is positioned during a blood pressure reading can skew measurements, sometimes ...

That's especially true for people with high blood pressure. Many over-the-counter (OTC) painkillers can push your blood pressure higher. That can be dangerous. Since high blood pressure has no ...

Patients who go to the doctor to provide a blood sample are typically faced with a needle and syringe and hours or days of ...

Hypertension – more commonly known as high blood pressure – is often considered the king of chronic diseases. Approximately ...

Certain arm positions -- supported on a lap or hanging by the side of the body -- led to significant overestimation of blood pressure readings compared with standardized positioning, a randomized ...

A patient's arm resting in their lap could erroneously bump up both the top and bottom number — known as the systolic and ...