A study reveals that one-size-fits-all blood pressure cuffs are remarkably inaccurate. The findings highlight the importance of using properly sized cuffs to obtain accurate blood pressure readings.
The difference, it turns out, had nothing to do with his heart health. At the hospital, his first blood pressure cuff had been too small, and it was changed only at his request. For Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public Health Association and a self-described “big guy,” an undersized blood pressure cuff had dramatically thrown off his readings.
In other words, using a smaller-than-recommended cuff size led to artificially high blood pressure numbers, while using a larger cuff size resulted in falsely low readings. Those effects did not change depending on a person’s existing blood pressure or obesity status, according to the report. “We were shocked at how big of a difference there was,” Brady told CNN. “I didn’t expect the magnitude that we found.
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