THE EFFECT OF SLEEVED ARMS ON OSCILLOMETRIC BLOOD-PRESSURE MEASUREMENT

The authors measured the blood pressures of 36 subjects who had barc a nd sleeved arms to determine the effect of wearing sleeves on automati c oscillometric blood pressure measurements. They found no statistical ly significant effect of sleeves on the measurement of either systolic or diastolic blood pressure (p > 0. 1 5). However, based on confidenc e intervals of possible sleeve effects, the authors recommend repeatin g blood pressure measurements on bared arms when the sleeved-arm oscil lometric measurements are at least 86 mm Hg diastolic or 135 mm Hg sys tolic.