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People’s Pharmacy: How can taking blood pressure readings while sitting reflect a patient’s average BP?
People’s Pharmacy: How can taking blood pressure readings while sitting reflect a patient’s average BP?
People’s Pharmacy: How can taking blood pressure readings while sitting reflect a patient’s average BP?

Published on: 03/07/2026

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If I wanted to know what my blood pressure is 99% of the time during a typical day, it should be measured while in that typical state. Getty Images

Q. You have repeatedly criticized health care workers for making mistakes when measuring blood pressure. No one has answered my question of why a “proper” blood pressure reading requires me to assume a state that I exist in perhaps 1% of the time during an average day. That is, sitting in a chair, feet flat on the floor, arm level with my heart on an armrest, empty bladder and perfectly quiet for five minutes.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/advice/2026/03/peoples-pharmacy-how-can-taking-blood-pressure-readings-while-sitting-reflect-a-patients-average-bp.html

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