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TOPCOM BPM Arm 3301
3Helpful tips
Here are a few helpful tips to help you obtain more accurate readings:
• Do not measure your blood pressure immediately after consuming a large meal. To
obtain more accurate readings, please wait one hour before measuring.
• Do not smoke or drink alcohol before measuring your blood pressure.
• You should not be physically tired or exhausted while taking a measurement.
• It is important that you relax during measurement. Try to take 15-minutes rest
before a reading.
• Do not take measurements if you are under stress or under tension.
• Take your blood pressure at normal body temperature. If you are feeling cold or
hot, wait a while before taking a measurement.
• If the monitor is stored at very low temperature (near freezing), have it placed at a
warm location for at least one hour before using it.
• Wait about 5 minutes before taking the next pressure measurement.
4 Disposal of the device
At the end of the product lifecycle, you should not throw this product into
the normal household garbage but bring the product to a collection point
for the recycling of electrical and electronic equipments. The symbol on
the product, user guide and/or box indicate this.
Some of the product materials can be re-used if you bring them to a
recycling point. By re-using some parts or raw materials from used products you make
an important contribution to the protection of the environment. Please contact your local
authorities in case you need more information on the collection points in your area.
5 Blood pressure
5.1 What is Blood Pressure?
Blood pressure is the pressure exerted on the artery tube while blood flows through the
arteries. The pressure measured when the heart contracts and sends blood out of the
heart is systolic (highest). The pressure measured when
the heart dilates with blood flowing back into the heart is called diastolic (lowest) blood
pressure.
5.2 Why Measure Your Blood Pressure?
Among the various health problems afflicting modern people, problems associated with
high blood pressure are by far the most common. High blood pressure's dangerously
strong correlation with cardiovascular diseases
and high morbidity has made measuring blood pressures a necessity of identifying those
at risk.
