Intended Use Of Healthy Living Blood Pressure Monitors; Measurement Method - Samsung Healthy Living BW-325S Manual Del Usuario

Commonly Asked Questions
About Blood Pressure
this mystery that hypertension has been named "the silent killer."
Don't let it sneak up on you! Start monitoring your blood pressure
every day with your new Healthy Living monitor.
Why Is It Important To Control My Blood Pressure?
Left uncontrolled, hypertension may place an incredible
amount of stress on your heart and arteries, both of which
become forced to work harder to keep blood flowing in a
healthy manner throughout the body. Over time, this stress
may result in health problems including over enlargement of
the heart, loss of elasticity of the arteries, heart disease,
stroke and even death. Making some simple lifestyle
changes now may help you to stay healthy in the future.
Intended Use of Healthy Living
Blood Pressure Monitors
Healthy Living blood pressure monitors offer convenient, home
use. They are noninvasive, meaning no part of the monitor enters
your body, and provide systolic, diastolic and pulse measure-
ments. Healthy Living monitors are recommended for use by
people over the age of 18 and are not suitable for clinical use.
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Commonly Asked Questions About Blood Pressure/Intended Use of Healthy Living Blood Pressure Monitor

Measurement Method

Healthy Living monitors measure blood pressure and pulse by
using what's called an oscillometric method, meaning they mea-
sure the fluctuations in pressure. This is done by first wrapping
a fitted cuff around the upper arm (or wrist, depending on the
model). The monitor then automatically fills the cuff with air cre-
ating pressure around the arteries inside of the arm (or wrist).
Mounted inside of the cuff is a special gauge that is capable of
sensing the small oscillations (fluctuations) in pressure. These fluc-
tuations are produced as a result of the pressure the cuff has
placed around the arm and are, in a basic sense, the arteries con-
tracting (getting larger and smaller) with each heart beat. The
monitor then measures how high and how quickly these contrac-
tions occur and converts that information into a digital value. A
special valve, called an electrode, deflates the monitor automat-
ically when the measurement is complete.
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Measurement Method