4 ms·
You might be surprised. "White coat hypertension" is well-known. Someone with a reliable set of readings from home would be more convincing than someone who say
by devilbunny 2y ago
You might be surprised. "White coat hypertension" is well-known. Someone with a reliable set of readings from home would be more convincing than someone who says "I get it read at Walmart/CVS once a month and it's ok".
Your doctor's office's monitor isn't incredibly accurate. If you want accurate, you need a mercury sphygmomanometer to measure the pressure. Unless fundamental properties of the universe have changed, it will also be comparable to any other readings taken with mercury.
- bigmattystyles 2y agoAnd it has to be in retrograde.
- devilbunny 2y agoThat's a complicating factor, but one that we can usually calculate.