According to the review just out at New York Post Shopping, “it’s important to use a validated device that has been shown to provide accurate readings. Two resources include ValidateBP and StrideBP. The newspaper refers to Lama Ghazi, MD, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Yale School of Medicine who specializes in inpatient hypertension. She says: “I recommend selecting ‘home’ under device type for the ValidateBP site and selecting ‘adults, home, upper arm and automatic oscillometric’ when searching the StrideBP site. Other considerations: checking that you have the appropriate cuff size and that the cuff is not snug. Always take your blood pressure monitor with you when you visit your primary care physician to calibrate the device, in other words, to establish a baseline between readings on your device and office blood pressure readings for future reference,” Ghazi tips off.
