Where I trained, this is why we don’t diagnose someone as hypertensive unless there are three separate elevated blood pressure measurements on three different c

Where I trained, this is why we don’t diagnose someone as hypertensive unless there are three separate elevated blood pressure measurements on three different clinic visits. We would schedule people for Nurse only BP checks to help establish the pattern. This statistical anbiguity is why the medical community as a whole is often sceptical of the Direct to consumer DNA testing and SNP analysis. They report data in a convincing way which is statistically misleading and in no way plainly reveals what is within measurement error.