Please ask me about blood pressure measurement

Nervousness when measuring blood pressure can definitely affect the results.

The method of adjustment is self-psychological adjustment, self-relaxation, and can take deep breaths, shift attention, and silently recite words such as "not nervous" during the measurement.

Buy an ordinary desktop blood pressure monitor that can be seen in hospitals, but it is only one hundred and eighty. You can buy any of the larger prescriptions. Note that you will need to buy another stethoscope at the same time.

Yesterday, I went to Tong Ren Tang Pharmacy and saw a product that had a box that could put a blood pressure monitor and stethoscope together, and sold it for 120 yuan.

There are other models, yesterday I bought a "manual upper arm blood pressure monitor" for my mother, which can automatically deflate after manual inflation and display the measured blood pressure and pulse. More than 200 yuan.

Although it is generally believed that the electronic blood pressure monitor is not as accurate as the desktop blood pressure monitor, this model does not need a stethoscope and can measure blood pressure by itself, which is very convenient for the elderly.

The impact is great, and it is recommended to self-measure blood pressure and avoid outpatient pseudohypertension.

On December 1, 2009, the symposium on "Application of Family Blood Pressure Monitoring" and the "Second Review Meeting of the Working Group on Blood Pressure Measurement" were held in Beijing. The conference was hosted by the Chinese Hypertension Alliance and the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Health. Relevant experts said at the meeting that the revised "Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension in China" will highlight the important role of family self-measurement of blood pressure in the prevention and treatment of hypertension, and promote the popularization of quality-certified home electronic blood pressure monitors in communities and families.

Home blood pressure measurements are more accurate.

A clinical study by the participating experts showed that the blood pressure measured by subjects in the hospital office was often higher than the blood pressure measured at home, with an average systolic blood pressure of 3 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure of 1 mm Hg; In the same situation, the difference was greater in the group of hypertensive patients, with a mean systolic blood pressure of one mm Hg higher and a diastolic blood pressure of one mm Hg. When performing continuous repeated home blood pressure measurements to assess the effect of antihypertensive drugs**, the first day of the measurement was significantly higher and the difference in the measurements gradually decreased over the following days, suggesting that the continuous home measurement was more accurate.

At the meeting, experts also said that the principles and methods of measuring blood pressure are different, and the high blood pressure value measured in the hospital clinic is easy to cause excessive diagnostic prevalence and some unnecessary drugs**, so home blood pressure measurement should be used to supplement. Clinical studies have proved that accurate home blood pressure measurement has a higher value for cardiovascular disease than office blood pressure measurement, so it is recommended to promote the use of home blood pressure measurement in clinical practice of hypertension prevention and treatment. At the same time, experts also showed that there are few studies to evaluate the consistency of home blood pressure and office blood pressure measurements in hypertensive people, so the specific causes of the differences need to be further studied in the future.