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Which hand is better for checking blood pressure?

April 26, 2017blood pressure checking Conditions diseases hand Health heart

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Which hand is better for checking blood pressure?

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actually both hands is ok but left side should be more accurate as the heart is slightly on the left side…. but for those retrocardiac patient which their heart is on the right side instead of on the left, of course right hand will be more accurate…

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There should not be a problem on either hands. But, my physiology professor used say that BP should be checked on the non-dominant hand.

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I think left, that is what my blood pressure machine’s instructions say. You can get a different reading from the right. Sometimes my doc takes both.

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The best way to test blood pressure is the right side. Sitting comfortably after awakening and before drinking coffee/tea or inhaling nicotine. There is no significant difference between the right and left arm unless you have breast cancer and lymphadenectomy, significant atherosclerosis or a cardiac anomaly of the vessels. The reason for the right arm is because the doctor is always taught to examine the patient from the right side is the proper way of doing things. There is side to side variability from minute to minute but it is not clinically significant in the normal patient.