ELI5 How do home blood pressure monitors work?

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ELI5 How do home blood pressure monitors work?

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  1. ChaZcaTriX Avatar

    Same way a doctor does it, just automated.

    The device listens for your pulse, starts inflating the cuff until it can’t detect pulse, then deflates until it can detect it again. These two values are diastolic and systolic pressure.