Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/b9KtTg2Ktvg   The best place to monitor your blood pressure is at home with your own blood pressure measuring device.  Investigators at Seattle’s Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute studied 510 adults who were under suspicion for hypertension but were as yet undiagnosed.   The results, presented last month at the American Heart Association's Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2021, showed that overall acceptance of and adherence to the monitoring routine was over 90% for those taking their pressures at home.  Compare that with 87% for those returning to the outpatient clinic but only 68% for those taking their own pressures at a self-service kiosk.   Some 50% of Americans suffer from high blood pressure and 33% are unaware of this time bomb within their bodies.  High blood pressure is particularly in younger men and older women.  We should all be taking our blood pressures regularly at home using the readily available home monitoring machines which cost as little