Under which conditions can I get the best possible measurement results?
Measurement Conditions
- You should measure your blood pressure under comparable living situations and under relaxed and quiet conditions at the same time frame of the day, for example every evening about an hour after you had dinner.
- Perform the measurement while sitting in a quiet atmosphere.
- Avoid eating, smoking as well as all forms of exertion directly before measurement.
- Take several minutes rest before measuring.
- Measurement Preparations
- Please confirm that the circumference of your arm or wrist is covered by the range as written on the cuff.
- Fit the cuff as explained in the manual.
- Put on the cuff and secure it tightly but not so tight as to be uncomfortable.
- With upper arm monitors, take care not to restrict the blood flow by pushing up the sleeve too tightly. Thin clothes on the arm do not interfere the accuracy.
- Connect the cuff with the main unit, switch the device on and inflate the cuff pressure according to the manual instructions.
- With wrist monitors, take care that the wrist is at heart level! A 15 cm difference in height would result into a measurement error of 10mmHg!
- During the Measurement
- Avoid any kind of movement.
- Do not activate any of the muscles in the measurement arm.
- Breath normally and do not talk.
- If you want to perform several measurements sequentially, you should wait at least 1 minute between two measurements. Loosen the cuff during this waiting period to enable a normal blood flow.