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• Never venture self-diagnosis or self-treatment. The blood pressure should be taken by a doctor
or an expert who knows your illness history. By making a regular use of the blood pressure
measuring unit and plotting the readings, you keep the doctor up-to-date with the tendencies
of your blood pressure.
• Tie the sleeve well around your wrist. The sleeve should be at the same height as your heart. Do
not wind the sleeve around the sleeve of your jacket or shirt, otherwise measuring the blood
pressure is not possible.
• Do not move or shake the measuring unit during measurement, because that would render the
readings inaccurate.
• Carry out the measurement while you are at rest and unstressed.
• Please remember that the blood pressure changes according to nature and the time of the day
and also depends upon several factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, medication
consumption and physical stress and strain.
• In case of persons with a state caused by circulation problems (diabetes, kidney problems,
calcification of arteries or circulation problems) the readings on this monitor can appear lower
than in a blood pressure monitor, which measures the blood pressure on the upper arm. Please
consult your doctor, to ensure whether the blood pressure measurement on your wrist will give
correct readings.
• The readings obtained with this measuring unit correspond to those of a trained person, who
carried out measurement with a sleeve or by listening through a stethoscope.
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