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Blood pressure monitor

New Products Sep. 18, 2011 - 06:43AM JST ( 13 )

TOKYO —

Citizen Systems Japan Co is selling a new electronic blood pressure monitor. The CH-551 display is bigger and it can manage two people’s results.

6,000 yen.

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13 Comments

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FoxieSep. 18, 2011 - 09:48AM JST

Do those things ever work? I tried 4 on display in a shop and 4 times different results.
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zichiSep. 18, 2011 - 09:50AM JST

Just visit a hospital and use one there.
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It"S MESep. 18, 2011 - 09:52AM JST

I usually use the one at my local Tomods while I wait for my meds.

Don't have much faith into those handheld ones.
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The Munya TimesSep. 18, 2011 - 11:36AM JST

The handhelds are toys.
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timtakSep. 18, 2011 - 07:34PM JST

The position of ones hand matters a lot. You have to have your hand at the same height as your heart or at least at the same height (compared to your heart) as other measurements. Some of these wrist gizmos are able to work out where your wrist is and complain if it is not at heart level.
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shirokuma2011Sep. 19, 2011 - 09:29AM JST

I use a home BP monitor from Omron (not a wrist device) twice a day, and it is very consistent. It's best to be seated, and to measure your BP at roughly the same time of day/under the same conditions each time.

The machine at the hospital I go to usually measures out at about 20 points higher, though, which concerns me, but the doctor says it is probably not significant, given that my results at home are consistently lower.
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The Munya TimesSep. 19, 2011 - 11:20AM JST

The machine at the hospital I go to usually measures out at about 20 points higher

I can second that. All of them in all hospitals.
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shirokuma2011Sep. 19, 2011 - 12:21PM JST

They actually call it "white coat hypertension", apparently... people are just more wound up when they go to the doctor's...
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cleoSep. 19, 2011 - 12:22PM JST

It's perfectly normal for your blood pressure to be lower at home, where you're relaxed, than when you're out and about. Plus 20 points when measured at the hospital sounds about right.
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The Munya TimesSep. 19, 2011 - 01:16PM JST

It's something about the systolic and diastolic, I don't know I never had problem with blood pressure but they say it doesn't matter if the sys rising while the dia remains under 90.

I know these small blood pressure monitors, I tried the very small ones that works on the index finger while holding it at the height of the heart, it was not very consistent. I don't know if they are accurate or not. Also in some countries the doctors always measure blood pressure on the left upper arm at the heights of the heart, in Japanese the machines at the hospitals measure it on the right upper arm. I am in the dark weather it has any significance or not.
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cleoSep. 20, 2011 - 01:25AM JST

in Japanese the machines at the hospitals measure it on the right upper arm

My doctor always measures on the left upper arm. Maybe it just depends which way his desk faces.
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Elbuda MexicanoSep. 22, 2011 - 04:12PM JST

I am happy I have to take my blood pressure before and after I work out at my local gym, wish I had an airbike at home thought, so I would not have to go all the way to my local gym in the middle of a typhoon etc..but I would like to see if this new fancy Citizen product really works??
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JapanGalSep. 23, 2011 - 03:59PM JST

Foxie

It is suppose to. If it showed the same results over and over again it would be broken, or you would be dead.