The pediatric cardiology innovations include monitoring systems, handheld devices for imaging and diagnostics, and a ...
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 ...
Investigators suggest that not following arm support guidelines during blood pressure screening could have a substantial ...
Certain commonly used arm positions may result in inaccurately high blood pressure readings and lead to a misdiagnosis of ...
An inaccurate reading due to poor arm position could lead to misdiagnosis of high blood pressure or unnecessary treatment. As ...
“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 ...
If you also suffer from white coat syndrome (thank you, anxiety), you might be accustomed to the nurse testing your blood ...
Researchers concluded that improper arm position could result in 40 to 54 million people being misclassified as having hypertension.
Blood pressure readings taken while a person's arm is in the wrong position could lead to a misdiagnosis of hypertension, a ...
A study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers concludes that commonly used ways of positioning the patient's arm during ...