Measuring blood pressure at home: Keep it simple
AUTOMATIC BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR
Keeping your blood pressure in check is key to a maintaining heart health and preventing stroke, but the way most of us monitor our pressure isn't ideal. We trek to the doctor's office for occasional blood pressure checks, even though that's like trying to figure out what an entire movie is about by glancing at a few seconds of footage.
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