Comments on: Re: BP? Another question http://diabetes.pocket-book.com/2003/12/04/re-bp-another-question/ Some tips for diabetic, recipes and products. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:16:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Dave Black http://diabetes.pocket-book.com/2003/12/04/re-bp-another-question/#comment-10653 Dave Black Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:47:57 +0000 http://diabetes.pocket-book.com/2003/12/04/re-bp-another-question/#comment-10653 Hi, I don't feel like taking drugs as a pr3eventative is really warrented. If we take this idea further, why not put all people on antibiotics all the time because they just might get an infection? And while it is certainly true that heart disease, high bp, etc, may be more common in diabetics, that dosen't mean that automatically all diabetics will have problems with it. I don't know the answer to the tight cuff question, but I do know that if they use a cuff that is the wrong size, that can make the readings artificially high. So the theory about a too tight cuff makes sense to me. Caitlyn Hi,
I don’t feel like taking drugs as a pr3eventative is really warrented. If
we take this idea further, why not put all people on antibiotics all the
time because they just might get an infection? And while it is certainly
true that heart disease, high bp, etc, may be more common in diabetics, that
dosen’t mean that automatically all diabetics will have problems with it.

I don’t know the answer to the tight cuff question, but I do know that if
they use a cuff that is the wrong size, that can make the readings
artificially high. So the theory about a too tight cuff makes sense to me.

Caitlyn

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