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Apple expects to notify 100M people that they have hypertension in a year

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42 points brandonb | 1 comments | 09 Sep 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.507s | source
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crims0n ◴[09 Sep 25 19:16 UTC] No.45187270[source]▶
I am looking forward to this feature, but worry about it's accuracy.

Every time I go to the doctor and they hook me up to a blood pressure monitor, it comes back way high (like 160/90). I then request a manual check and it always comes back normal. I didn't figure this out until after they prescribed me calcium channel blockers (and they didn't do anything). Something about the shape of my arm or something.

Anyway point being that a faulty reading led to me being prescribed meds I did not need. Hoping this doesn't lead to more of the same.

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1. m463 ◴[09 Sep 25 21:53 UTC] No.45189779[source]▶
I've heard inaccuracy could be dependent on how your arm is held/supported/relaxed when you are attached to the automatic cuff.

I always end up with my arm almost shoulder height resting on some bin on the side of the blood pressure device cart thing.

I wonder why they can't use an ergonomic chair with two appropriate-height support arms.