Blood Pressure Should Be Regularly Monitored At Home

May 23, 2008 · 83 views · Filed Under Disease

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Everyone at risk for high blood pressure should monitor it regularly at home to give a clear picture of blood pressure changes and to make it possible for doctors to give proper treatment for every patient.

American Heart Association announced the urgency of regular blood pressure monitoring, and most of major health organizations and professionals agreed agreed with this advice. Patients go to a doctor, have blood pressure measured once and receive a treatment according to just one measuring, but this is wrong.

There are lots of factors affecting blood pressure and it is impossible to have a proper treatment taking into consideration only one measurement. For example, there are people with ‘white coat hypertension’ - they have blood pressure higher when they are at the doctor’s place because they are depressed. There are about 20% of hypertension patients suffering from this nervous condition. For them home high blood pressure at home is 135/85 mm Hg and at doctor’s place 140/90 mm Hg. There are some 10% of patients suffering from a similar condition, but they have blood pressure lower at doctor’s place than they have at home.

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Source: eMaxHealth

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