Just a bit of personal experience with the use of BP monitoring at home:
Doc wanted me to compare the accuracy of my device with her office device and asked me to bring in mine. In the office, as I sat in the exam room hanging off the edge of the table with the gizmo on my lap as I took the reading it was wildly inaccurate...didn't even make sense.
Bought a new machine and tried it at the doc's office again with same result. Sent it back to manufacturer (Omron) to be checked with result as normal function. But in my conversation with the customer service tech rep I was told you must follow the USE instructions EXACTLY...not just closely but EXACTLY or the reading is inaccurate.
Dangling off the edge of the doc's exam table just doesn't fit the operating instructions. I don't have white-coat hypertension or particularly high BP anyway.
Last edited by bafanguy; 8th Sep 2019 at 18:33.