Measuring blood pressure only once or twice a year provides a poor sample due to high variability.

“I mean we we we in our patients will will ask them to do twice a day checks at home same method that I'm using for at least two weeks once a year and you know if we have reason to believe that that suspect will do it more and yet so even though that's much more than they would be asked to do normally it still feels woefully inadequate”

“I mean we we we in our patients will will ask them to do twice a day checks at home s method that I'm using for at least two weeks once a year and you know if we have reason to believe that that suspect will do it more and yet so even though that's much more than they would be asked to do normally it still feels woefully inadequate”

“It is always interesting to me that we measure blood pressure not just one a you know 10 or 30 second interval in a 24-hour day but that we do that you know on average you know once or twice a year that we assume that this very variable number is actually meaningful and it's a remarkable to me that it has been even meaningful the way that we've been measuring it um because it is such a poor sample”