![]() ![]() Lexy, thank you so much for being on Fit Mama Friday! I know you haven’t always been a runner, but have you always been fit? What was your fitness story like before you had children? ![]() I love Lexy’s passion for running and I love her story! Meet Lexy. Mama of two beautiful kids with her husband Jeff – daughter Vivian, 10 years old, and son Gordon, 5 years old – this awesome mother runner can now add marathoner to her list of achievements. Giacomo Pucci of the University of Perugia and Terni University Hospital in Italy, who wasn’t involved in the study.Sometimes you don’t discover that you love something and you’re good at it until a little later in life…like after you’ve had two children! Today on Fit Mama Friday, meet Lexy Streber, a fit mama who started running after her second child was a year old. He added, “The study findings feed into a bigger story on the need to improve the accuracy of blood pressure devices in general.”īlood pressure guidelines are based on external upper-arm cuff measurements, noted Dr. "The guide provides instructions on the standardized method, as well as a diary to record blood pressure values." Sharman suggested that doctors and patients can use an "easy-to-use" and comprehensive guide to measuring blood pressure at home, published (here: bit.ly/2vbI0IV) in 2016 by the journal Australian Family Physician. “Our research adds further weight to the evidence that the vast majority of these wrist devices will not record blood pressure values that are comparable with the clinical standard of upper arm cuff blood pressure.” “If you do an online search, you will see there are hundreds of devices available for sale, including many that measure blood pressure with a cuff or a band at the wrist,” Sharman said. More than half of this difference was accounted for by the pressure difference between aorta and upper arm measurements, and the rest was the difference between upper arm and wrist measurements, researchers found. On average, wrist systolic blood pressure was 12.9 mmHg higher than systolic pressure measured in the aorta, the main artery delivering blood from the heart to the rest of the body. One in nine participants (11 percent) had wrist systolic pressure readings that were lower by 5 mmHg or more than their upper arm reading. “So the magnitude of variation between individuals was substantial.”įewer than half of the patients had wrist systolic pressure readings within 5 mmHg of their upper arm reading for 46 percent the readings differed by 5mmHg or more, including 27 percent whose readings differed by 10mmHg or more. “We expected to see a lot of variation in how systolic blood pressure changed from the upper arm to the wrist, but were interested to see the amount of people (14 percent) with what may be considered as very large differences on average 20 mmHg (or more),” Sharman said in an email. Systolic blood pressure - the top number in a blood pressure reading that reflects pressure within the arteries when the heart beats - averaged 5.5 mmHg higher at the wrist than at the upper arm, the researchers report in the journal Hypertension. Sharman of the University of Tasmania, in Hobart, Australia, and his team measured blood pressure consecutively at the upper arm and wrist in 180 middle aged and older individuals undergoing coronary angiography. ![]() But many devices used by patients at home, including the increasingly available wearable monitors, measure blood pressure at the wrist and other locations.ĭr. ![]() (Reuters Health) - Blood pressure measured at the wrist is commonly higher than pressure measured at the upper arm, which has implications for the accuracy of devices that measure blood pressure, researchers report.Ĭurrent hypertension guidelines are based on blood pressure measured with a brachial cuff, the kind typically used in doctor’s offices, and applied on the upper arm. ![]()
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