Certain arm positions during blood pressure checks may ... by your side may lead to an overestimated systolic reading of 6.5 ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore studied the effect different arm positions had during blood ... pressure was overestimated by 6.5 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure was ...

Regarding the new study, he added that he doesn’t see a blood pressure reading that may be off by 4 to 5 mm Hg – due to arm position – leading to overdiagnosis or overtreatment, in the form ...

Improper arm positions sometimes used during blood pressure ... and that gives you an overestimated BP of 6.5 mmHg, that’s a potential difference between a systolic BP of 123 and 130, or 133 ...

In a report on the study, which was published Oct. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine, investigators examined the effects of three different arm positions: an arm supported ... at the side overestimated ...