Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: How to Make It Useful for Your Healthcare Provider's Review? In this episode, I will tell you how to make your home blood pressure monitoring useful for your healthcare provider's review. What I want for you is an accurate diagnosis and treatment, and I know you won't get the wrong diagnosis if you follow these instructions.

Home blood pressure monitoring, logging, and sharing might be the most important things you can do if you want to prevent being labeled and treated for hypertension incorrectly.

Measure once a day at various times for 7 days before your clinic visit for the best results based on recommendations from a BP panel of experts in 2017 (MD and researchers).

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Small-sized validated blood pressure cuff 9-17 inches here. Regular-sized validated blood pressure cuff 13-17 inches here; Large-sized validated blood pressure cuff up to 16.5 to 21.25 inches here. Extra-large validated large cuff up to 16.5-23.6 inches click here.

List of validated blood pressure monitors click here.
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Measuring your blood pressure in both arms is another very important thing to do to determine your risk for peripheral vascular disease, heart attack, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. If your systolic blood pressure is greater than 10 points consistently when you compare your right and left arm, you might be at a higher cardiovascular risk. Let your health care provider know about this on your next visit.

Blood pressure measurement is crucial to figure out if you have high blood pressure or not because it will guide critical decisions about your health. Your doctor will use your blood pressure measurements to determine if you need medication and how much to prescribe. 

Based on the 2017 hypertension guidelines, using office blood pressure monitoring to diagnose high blood pressure, is no longer recommended. Office blood pressure monitoring is used only as a screening tool. 

Home blood pressure monitoring is in the new hypertension guidelines as the most accurate way to diagnose high blood pressure. However, what's missing is how to share your readings with your doctor. In this episode, you will learn how to share your blood pressure measurements with your doctor.

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Hi, I'm Dr. Tonya, a clinical research scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, where I hold various positions. I spent the past decade studying hypertension, home blood pressure monitoring and tracking, medication adherence, and readiness and confidence to change lifestyle behaviors. 

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