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You might be surprised. "White coat hypertension" is well-known. Someone with a reliable set of readings from home would be more convincing than someone who says "I get it read at Walmart/CVS once a month and it's ok".

Your doctor's office's monitor isn't incredibly accurate. If you want accurate, you need a mercury sphygmomanometer to measure the pressure. Unless fundamental properties of the universe have changed, it will also be comparable to any other readings taken with mercury.




And it has to be in retrograde.


That's a complicating factor, but one that we can usually calculate.




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