Unlike with a traditional blood draw, the patient does not see the needle go into the arm nor the tubes of blood. The entire process takes about two minutes.

Commonly used arm positions can substantially overestimate blood pressure readings Investigators say failing to follow arm support guidelines during BP screening could have significant clinical ...

Here’s how it works: The patient sits in a chair by the 5-foot-tall Aletta device, and places an arm on a sloped armrest that’s part of the device. The patient then presses a start button, and ...

His blood pressure reading seemed unusually high, until his eagle-eyed nurse noticed something that would change everything – his arm position.

To learn whether arm position made a difference in blood pressure readings, Brady and her colleagues recruited 133 adults, 78% of them Black and 52% female. The study volunteers’ ages ranged ...

The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found that having your arm resting in the lap during a blood pressure reading can lead to an overestimated systolic blood ...

Researchers say their study findings underscore the importance of adhering to clinical guidelines calling for firm arm support on a desk or other surface when measuring blood pressure. Credit: Tammy ...

Unlike with a traditional blood draw, the patient does not see the needle go into the arm nor the tubes of blood. The process takes about two minutes and has a 95% success rate on the first attempt.

“We know that arm position affects the blood pressure reading, what this study does is gives us a more precise measure of just how much this has an impact,” Dr. Nichola Davis, vice president ...