***を対象とした血圧測定におけるカフ幅の検討

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The blood pressure cuff must have the correct width for the arm circumference, for if it is too narrow, the blood pressure reading will be erroneously higher ; if it is too wide, the reading may be erroneously lower. The purpose of this study is to identify the proper cuff width for measuring blood pressure of young adult women precisely. Using the cuff of 12cm (for adults) as the standard size and 9cm (for children) in width, we measured the blood pressure of 41 female university students. The mean arm circumference was 23.6cm requiring a cuff width of 9.4cm, because the cuff width should be 40% of the arm circumference. Therefore, we found that the standard cuff width of 12cm was too large for the subjects of our study. And, with standard cuff width (12cm), the mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure were underestimated by 7.7mmHg and 9.8mmHg, respectively. Such underestimation may lead to a misdiagnosis of pre-eclampsia, particularly in lean pregnant women.
2007-03-31