How did you have your blood pressure checked at the doctors office? Every time I've gone it goes like this: Sit in the waiting room for at least 10-15 minutes past your appointment time. If you aren't sick, just a check up or follow up, you now get exposure to more sick people than you normally would in a month. Have you name called and a nurse takes you to a scale where you are weighed. Then from there you get to go to the exam room where the nurse immediately slaps a cuff on your clothed arm and takes your blood pressure. Also the nurse checks your temperature and heart rate at this time as you sit on the exam table. No support for your arm and feet dangling. Surprise! You have elevated blood pressure. https://www.heart.org/en/news/2023/11/09/where-and-how-you-sit-matters-when-getting-blood-pressure-taken-at-the-doctors-office |