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People who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure may want to check again. That’s because many commonly used arm positions for blood pressure checks can lead to inaccurately high readings, ...

A new study found that having your arm in the wrong position during blood pressure checks — either at home or the doctor’s ...

Incorrect arm positioning during blood pressure measurement can overestimate readings, potentially leading to misdiagnosis ...

New research shows that different arm positions can produce different blood pressure readings. Blood pressure readings taken ...

Commonly used arm positions (lap and side) for measuring blood pressure (BP) can overestimate readings, according to a study ...

Certain arm positions -- supported on a lap or hanging by the side of the body -- led to significant overestimation of blood pressure readings compared with standardized positioning, a randomized ...

People may end up misdiagnosed with high blood pressure simply because their arm is in the wrong position when a reading is ...

Dr. Victoria Weston, emergency medicine physician, Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk ...

A study reinforces the importance of supporting the arm and placing the BP cuff at heart level, as guidelines recommend.

The position of your arm during blood pressure tests—be it in a doctor office or your living room—can impact the results, ...

“One of my hopes is that this will help inform patients as to how to do this on their own and also to tell their health care ...