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carefully.
• Please keep these instructions, the guaranty certificate, the sales receipt and, if
possible, the carton with the inner packaging!
• The device is intended exclusively for private and not for commercial use!
• Use the device only for the intended purpose.
Blood pressure is a measurement of the force of blood flowing against the walls of
the arteries. Arterial blood pressure is constantly changing during the course of the
cardiac cycle. The highest pressure in the cycle is called the systolic blood pressu-
re, the lowest is the diastolic blood pressure. Both pressure readings, the systolic
and the diastolic are necessary to enable a physician to evaluate the status of a
patient's blood pressure. Many factors such as physical activity, anxiety or the time
of day, can influence your blood pressure. Blood pressure is typically low in the
morning and increases from the afternoon to the evening. It is lower in the summer
and higher in the winter.
2. Why is useful to measure blood pressure
Having one's blood pressure measured by a doctor in a hospital or clinic, and a
group health checks, tend to stimulate nervousness in the subject and may even
create high blood pressure. Also varies blood pressure in accordance with a variety
of condtions and so judgment is not possible on the basis of a single measurement.
The blood pressure measured first thing in the morning after getting up, before
taking any food and with the subject still, is know as the fundamental blood pres-
sure. In practice it is rather difficult to record the fundamental blood pressure, but to
come as neare as possible to measuring the blood pressure in an environment that
is close to this, why it is useful to take the measurement at home.
A. WHO blood pressure classificati-
ons
Standards for assessment of high or low
blood pressure without regard to age,
have been established by the World
Health Organization (WHO), as shown in
the chart.
29.12.2004
General safety instructions
1. What is blood pressure?
at home?
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mmHg
increased blood pressure type
95
90
border line type
normal blood pressure type
140
Systolic blood pressure
GB
160
mmHg
Figure No. 1
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