“How is high blood pressure diagnosed?”
I am a 43 year old female. I want to know how is high blood pressure diagnosed?
1 Answer
Blood pressure can be easily measured using a cuff applied either to the arm or occasionally to the leg or the wrist. You inflate this to pressure above the arterial blood pressure and then slowly it is deflated and measures when blood flow returns to the hand or arm or foot. The device to measure this is called a sphygmomanometer so one can easily measure blood pressure. There are automated ones from places like Walgreens that can do this at home without having to go to a doctors office.
