Advantages of Measuring Your Own Blood Pressure

Digital blood pressure monitoring is an important way of diagnosing your cardiovascular health and hypertension. Doing it yourself at home allows you to constructively assist your doctor by carrying out additional checks that are useful in analyzing the progress of your blood pressure. But always remember that your doctor will advise you, and she or he is the only person who can make the correct diagnosis and then recommend the most suitable treatment for you and your blood pressure.

Self measurement

Are you an emotional person? Do you ever get plagued by anxiety? Maybe sometimes you suffer from white coat syndrome, in which just shaking your doctor's hand is sufficient to get your heart racing and increase your blood pressure. But you can also measure your own blood pressure readings through a digital blood pressure monitor in the comfort of your own home, which means you can obtain the actual figures as you go about your regular/daily activities. As per the studies, sometimes these are likely to be more accurate than those taken in your doctor's outpatient clinic. Clearly, the procedures and instruments you use must themselves be accurate. So there is no need to worry.

Now, if we talk about masked hypertension, this is a particular type of hypertension that manifests itself in normal values when recorded in your doctor's outpatient clinic, but higher figures when you are at home. Your doctor may think that you have normal blood pressure, but in reality, it's high. Domiciliary self-measurement may reveal high blood pressure outside the outpatient clinic which increases your risk of major cardiovascular events such as strokes and heart attacks. If we compare the data from the outpatient clinic with that from your measurements taken at home, the doctor may be able to identify or diagnose masked hypertension.

If you need digital blood pressure to monitor the progress of your blood pressure, domiciliary self-measurement will give you an accurate & detailed profile over time. This is particularly important when it comes to assessing the efficacy of antihypertensive medicine prescribed by your doctor.

Measuring your blood pressure by yourself allows you to connect a digital blood pressure monitor to your computer, print out all the readings you have taken so far, and email them to your doctor with a single click.

Sara Health Care's digital blood pressure monitor is a very precise and lightweight machine that measures systolic and diastolic pressure. It uses the smart and latest technology that inflates the cuff perfectly and provides the accurate reading of your blood pressure.