Monitoring your blood pressure at home is a critical part of managing high blood pressure or hypertension. Knowing how to check your blood pressure, including the proper steps before and after taking your reading is very important to obtaining the most accurate information. Once your blood pressure reading has been completed, make sure you know what the reading means to ensure you have a normal blood pressure reading.

Angela Luchterhand, certified medical assistant at Marshfield Clinic Health System, explains in this video.

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