Blood X Blood Monthly Blood Pressure Monitor Recommended

Along with the autumn wind each year, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day will soon come. In the season of reuniting families, young people will go home to visit their parents and other elderly people. Apart from moon cakes, will they consider sending some basic health supplies to their families?

Here recommend practical and affordable health equipment - sphygmomanometer.

Many of the friends around the author will buy a sphygmomanometer to take home before returning home, but often choose which one to choose because of too many products on the market.

In fact, there are more brands, and blood pressure monitors are basically divided into three types: electronic sphygmomanometers, mercury sphygmomanometers and spring-type sphygmomanometers. Since the latter two are generally used to measure blood pressure with the auscultation method, stethoscopes must be used in conjunction with specialized diagnostic knowledge to determine the outcome. Therefore, the scope of purchase of our general family is focused on electronic blood pressure monitors that are easy to operate.

Household electronic sphygmomanometers are divided into two types, arm-type electronic sphygmomanometers and wrist-type electronic sphygmomanometers.

The arm-type electronic sphygmomanometer measures the brachial artery blood pressure in the upper arm, which is the same as the site where we tested the mercury sphygmomanometer in the hospital. A wrist electronic sphygmomanometer measures the arterial blood pressure.

Anatomically, the brachial artery of the upper arm and the radial arteries at the wrist are almost the same in thickness. Generally, the diameter of the artery in the upper arm is 4.2 to 6 mm, and the diameter of the artery in the wrist is 4.2 to 5 mm. And the electronic sphygmomanometer is the same from the design accuracy to the manufacturing accuracy, and the inspection specifications of each sphygmomanometer are the same at the time of delivery. Therefore, in principle, there is no significant error between the arm-type electronic blood pressure monitor and the wrist electronic blood pressure monitor.

So why do people still have errors in the arm and wrist? According to our understanding, most of them report that the arm type is low and the wrist type is high. In fact, this is mainly a measurement posture problem. The subcutaneous fat on the upper arm causes the cuff roll to be loosened or too tight. No matter if it is too loose or too tight, the measurement value of blood pressure will be too low; the subcutaneous fat on the wrist will be less, so the cuff is easier to be tied and is not easy to loose or too tight, but the posture during measurement will affect the measured value. Experiments show that when the wrist rotates outward, it is easy to make the blood pressure increase. The user's manual requires that the wrists be naturally extended during measurement, but ordinary customers always turn their wrists outward when they are required to do so according to the requirements in the instruction manual, causing measurement errors. Therefore, the measurement should be in accordance with the requirements in the instructions, so that the natural extension of the wrist about 45 degrees. After the above points are noticed, there will be no significant difference between the upper arm type and the wrist type electronic blood pressure meter.

Another point is that due to diabetes, hyperlipidemia, high blood pressure and other diseases will accelerate arteriosclerosis, resulting in peripheral circulatory disorders in patients with these patients, the wrist blood pressure and upper arm blood pressure measurement values ​​vary widely. Therefore, it is generally recommended that these patients and the elderly choose an arm-type electronic sphygmomanometer that will be closer to the hospital's test results.

Omron Blood Pressure Monitor HEM-4030 (Boom Type)

In contrast, it does not apply to patients suffering from blood circulation disorders. However, if the users are on business trips, such a compact wrist sphygmomanometer is more portable.

Panasonic EW3038 Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor (Portable)