Blood Pressure Monitor - recommendations?

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My elderly mum needs a Blood pressure monitor - preferably something fairly accurate and easy to use.

Does anybody have recommendations? Google suggests that they're all much of a muchness

[gus607]

I bought an Omron meter from Asda pharmacy a few year ago, still works fine & still accurate. Only a basic meter without all the bells & whistles which suits me fine.

[Mr Pointy]

Omron - it's what the GPs use. Just buy the features you think you need.

[21TonyK]

Another Omron vote. I have a newer one which logs everything on an app on your phone etc but its fiddly to use.

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Thanks all - looks like Omron it is!

[Arrivalist]

And another Omron user here. They just work.

[98elise]

Mr Pointy said:

Omron - it's what the GPs use. Just buy the features you think you need.

Agreed. Cheap, reliable and its what my GP uses.

I just send my latest results in when they want to update my BP. Their machine isn't going to show anything different.

[rjfp1962]

Got my Omron monitor a few months back - basic version which cost just under £20.

[Aston Traveller]

gus607 said:

I bought an Omron meter from Asda pharmacy a few year ago, still works fine & still accurate. Only a basic meter without all the bells & whistles which suits me fine.

Just wondering how you know it is still accurate? Do you compare it to one at the surgery. Omron recommend calibration every 2 years for those used privately and yearly for those used in surgeries. I had my Omron M5I recalibrated and the readings were lower by about 8 points.

[motco]

I have had an Omron M4 unit since 1998 and because I kept being asked when it was last calibrated, I bought a new Omron M2 'Basic'. They both return very similar figures within the realms of accuracy of BP testing. In my experience three tests will nearly always return three different figures even if there's little or no time interval between them anyway. That goes for hospital test too. Omron is the maker of choice among the professionals though.

[Ken_Code]

gus607 said:

I bought an Omron meter from Asda pharmacy a few year ago, still works fine & still accurate. Only a basic meter without all the bells & whistles which suits me fine.

Same here, and it seems fine. Accurate, easy to use, inexpensive.

The only thing to check is that some models have a choice of cuff size and you need to buy the right one.

[a340driver]

I got a Boots intellisense unit and it was just as accurate as the NHS 24hr sensor I had to use at a later date.

[The Gauge]

I recently bought an Omron that bluetooths t my phone with an app that stores all the readings as a graph.