Take your blood pressure easily, quickly (less than 1 minute), and accurately. No messy hard-to-put-on arm cuffs!

I discovered this when my grandma was in a nursing home. She had a large arm and it hurt her when she had her blood pressure taken every day. I searched for alternative blood pressure machines and found WRIST BLOOD PRESSURE MACHINES. They are now being tested and validated for accuracy and reflect the leading trend to use at home or in a long term care facility.

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Hypertension, or high blood pressure, currently affects one in every three women and two in every five men - but 90 per cent of people who suffer from hypertension still don’t know why they have it. Despite the millions of pounds of research that has gone into investigating hypertension, its causes are still hazy in most cases - a fact that seems rather scary, considering that people who have high blood pressure are at much greater risk of developing heart disease or having a stroke. So how do you know if you’ve got hypertension - and, if you do, what measures can you take to control it?



The only real way to identify high blood pressure and establish whether or not you have hypertension is to visit your doctor or a nurse and get your blood pressure measured. Most doctors advise that the average person has their blood pressure checked at least once every five years. In most cases a good blood pressure reading is said to be somewhere around 120/80.



However, it’s important to remember that if you get your blood pressure checked and the reading seems a little low or high, it might not necessarily be because you have hypertension: in fact, your blood pressure will rise if you’re worried or stressed, just as it may decrease if you’re feeling particularly relaxed.

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A 2005 study found that ‘In contrast to early studies, recent research indicates that habitual moderate coffee intake does not represent a health hazard and may even be associated with beneficial effects on cardiovascular health ‘In fact, no clear association between coffee and the risk of high blood pressure, heart attack or other cardiovascular diseases has been demonstrated

Data collected for the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiological (NHANES I) by James Greenberg and colleagues at the City and State Universities of New York (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007, 85 (2): 392- 398), revealed that those over 65 with normal blood pressure who drank at least 4 caffeinated beverages a day had a 53% reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease.

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Hypertension, or high blood pressure, currently affects one in every three women and two in every five men - but 90 per cent of people who suffer from hypertension still don’t know why they have it. Despite the millions of pounds of research that has gone into investigating hypertension, its causes are still hazy in most cases - a fact that seems rather scary, considering that people who have high blood pressure are at much greater risk of developing heart disease or having a stroke. So how do you know if you’ve got hypertension - and, if you do, what measures can you take to control it?



The only real way to identify high blood pressure and establish whether or not you have hypertension is to visit your doctor or a nurse and get your blood pressure measured. Most doctors advise that the average person has their blood pressure checked at least once every five years. In most cases a good blood pressure reading is said to be somewhere around 120/80.



However, it’s important to remember that if you get your blood pressure checked and the reading seems a little low or high, it might not necessarily be because you have hypertension: in fact, your blood pressure will rise if you’re worried or stressed, just as it may decrease if you’re feeling particularly relaxed.

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