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What Causes Variation In Blood Pressure?
When taking blood pressure reading, the machine will give me a reading, when I retake it, it gives me a totally different reading than the first reading. I take the reading again, I will get a totally different reading again. I have changed the batteries in the machine, and it still give me different reading every time I reset the machine.Is my blood pressure going up and down like that?
Mon, 23 May 2016
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I am happy to be able to answer your query
Digital Blood pressure equipment are mostly accurate.. but can vary due to some variables such as
the sensor being aligned with the brachial artery
holding of breath by patient sometimes
patients position /arm position
Therefore an up/ down of a few mm should not matter mostly
Hope this satisfies your query.
stay healthy ..Keep smiling
I am happy to be able to answer your query
Digital Blood pressure equipment are mostly accurate.. but can vary due to some variables such as
the sensor being aligned with the brachial artery
holding of breath by patient sometimes
patients position /arm position
Therefore an up/ down of a few mm should not matter mostly
Hope this satisfies your query.
stay healthy ..Keep smiling
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