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Researchers may soon have much more advanced devices for tracking blood pressure than the one pictured here, at a medical clinic in Los Angeles. (Reuters)


Home Blood Pressure Monitors May Not Be Accurate

Home Blood Pressure Monitors May Not Be Accurate

by | May 1, 2017 | Health

Ottawa – Even as doctors are increasingly relying on home blood pressure monitoring to manage patients with hypertension, a new small study found that these devices may not be accurate enough. Researchers say that in about 70 percent of the time, home monitors...