Title: Technical Issues of Blood Pressure Measurement and Its Impact
Author: Ashraf Safiya Manzil
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v4i5.31
Abstract
Diagnosis of hypertension is based on bolod pressure (BP) measurements with a sphygmomanometer. BP levels of 140/ 90 mm Hg and higher are arbitrarily considered hypertensive, where as BP levels of 139/89 mmHg or less are considered normal or pre hypertensive (1). Some technical problems in BP measurements may give erroneously elevated BP levels and wrong diagnosis of hypertension. so it is great challenge to determine BP accurately.
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