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How to Choose Your Home Blood Pressure Equipment

By: Darrin Reservitz

High blood pressure can serve as a serious health hazard, leading to heart and kidney issues, stroke and, in the worst scenario, death! Thus, in addition to seeing your doctor regularly for both professional reading of blood pressure numbers and counsel, you’d also benefit from taking your blood pressure under your own roof, without the doctor. Given this, you may be examining home blood pressure equipment for purchase. To help you, this article will give you an overview of the two types of blood pressure equipment on the market as well as some of the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Blood pressure equipment, despite its complicated appearance, comes in two general versions: Aneroid and digital. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, and either might best serve your purposes depending upon your individual needs and goals. While the following information doesn’t provide an exhaustive review of these options, it will give you a general overview of each to help you decide the best blood pressure equipment for you.

Aneroid Blood Pressure Equipment

You’ll find a dial on aneroid. If you’ve ever used a bicycle pump, you’ve used a dial gauge. That round gauge with the numbers is a dial gauge. It looks very similar to a clock with its hour and minute hands. Further, it has a cuff that inflates around your arm. This is how the equipment determines your blood pressure. Generally, aneroid requires you to inflate the cuff with a hand pump.

One benefit of aneroid is it’s easy to move from room to room. Further, it is inexpensive, starting from twenty dollars, at the low end, to thirty dollars, at the high end. Unfortunately, the dial gauge can be difficult to read your blood pressure numbers on, particularly for those with poor eyesight. Additionally, if you have weak hands, using the hand pump could be challenging.

Digital Blood Pressure Equipment

I’m sure you’ve seen the red digits of a digital clock. That’s what digital blood pressure equipment does. As you could probably guess by now, it uses clear digits to show you your blood pressure numbers. People who have difficulty seeing may find this valuable. Further, some digital equipment allows you to print your readings. Also, some digital blood pressure equipment comes with automatically inflating cuffs, which, for some, including the arthritic, may be a great time saving advantage. But in some cases, movement can undermine the readout accuracy. Finally, this equipment is more expensive. The price tag can exceed $100.

Both aneroid and digital can read your blood pressure numbers, allowing you to easily monitor your blood pressure. Now you have no excuse for not always knowing if you have high blood pressure and getting in a position of treating it if necessary.

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