Common Blood Pressure Measurement Errors Undermine Cardiovascular Prevention

Uncontrolled hypertension increases risk of heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, and kidney damage affecting millions of undiagnosed patients.

Each year, millions of people perform a ritual they believe is protecting them—checking their blood pressure—without knowing that the way they do it may be rendering the result meaningless. On May 17th, World Hypertension Day, medical experts drew attention to a quiet crisis: that one in three adults lives with high blood pressure, that most of them feel nothing, and that the very tool meant to catch the disease is being used in ways that let it hide. The gap between measuring and measuring correctly is, for many, the gap between a timely diagnosis and a catastrophic one.

Common Blood Pressure Measurement Errors Undermine Cardiovascular Prevention

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