How you position your arm during a blood pressure check could potentially determine whether your doctor properly diagnoses and treats your hypertension. That conclusion comes from a study in which ...

Keeping your blood pressure in range helps ensure cardiovascular health. However, new research shows that certain arm positions during blood pressure checks may cause inaccurate readings—leading to ...

Blood pressure readings taken on arms parallel, or extended in the same direction as the body, are up to 10 percent higher than readings taken when the elbow is at a right angle to the body with elbow ...

The way you’re positioned during a blood pressure reading can affect its accuracy, and supporting your arm on a table is best, a new study finds. Lap and side positions resulted in substantial ...

Blood pressure readings may not be accurate unless a person’s arm is positioned correctly, a new study suggests. A comparison of blood pressure readings taken while people held their arms three ...

A study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers concludes that commonly used ways of positioning the patient's arm during blood pressure (BP) screenings can substantially overestimate test results ...