NEW YORK New York: Often patients and even nurses and doctors skip steps that help get an accurate picture of someone's blood pressure — from how a person sits and holds their arm, to whether they're breathing during a measurement. Just having a cup of coffee or chatting with your doctor, and other factors can produce readings that may be higher or lower than normal blood pressure.
Tammy Brady, a pediatric nephrologist at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, who studies blood pressure measurement and heart health in children and adults, told The Wall Street Journal, “To be really successful in improving people's heart health For, we need to screen and treat people for high blood pressure, but we need to do it the right way.” “Getting the right readings is very important for the heart,” reports Xinhua news agency. Important for preventing seizures, strokes and other potentially fatal conditions.”
What needs to be done to correct the reading? According to guidelines from the American Heart Association and other organizations, the patient should sit with both feet on the ground, legs uncrossed, back straight, and hands resting on a table or other surface. The report states, “A cuff should be placed on your bare arm that is at the level of your heart. You should not talk or scroll on your phone while being measured, and your bladder should be empty. at least twice your Blood pressure should be measured.”
Meanwhile, last month, research published by experts from an international academic collaboration led by the University of Sydney and University College London suggested that five minutes of physical activity a day, such as walking upstairs or climbing stairs, could reduce blood pressure. According to the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep (PROPASS) Consortium study, replacing sedentary behavior with 20-27 minutes of exercise per day can lead to clinically meaningful reductions in blood pressure.
“High blood pressure is one of the biggest health problems globally, but unlike some of the leading causes of cardiovascular mortality, there is no way to tackle this problem other than medication,” said Emmanuel Stamatakis, joint senior author and director of the ProPASS Consortium, from the University of Sydney. There may be relatively accessible methods for this.” “The finding that as little as five minutes of additional exercise per day can reduce blood pressure emphasizes how powerful short bursts of high-intensity exercise can be for blood pressure management.” The research team analyzed data from 14,761 volunteers to see how replacing one type of activity with another was related to blood pressure. The team estimated that replacing sedentary behavior with at least 20 minutes of exercise per day could reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease by 28 percent. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.28 billion adults aged 30–79 worldwide have high blood pressure, chronic high blood pressure, and 46 percent of adults with high blood pressure do not know they have the condition.
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