Panasonic improves blood pressure assessment – Panasonic EW3004E2 User Manual

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Panasonic improves blood pressure assessment

The treatment of high blood pressure is one of the most successful forms of
treatment in modern medicine. This applies not only when preventing
complications due to high blood pressure, but also with regard to treating
damage following a stroke or heart attack.

Recent studies have proven beyond all doubt that:
1. high blood pressure can be successfully lowered in patients of

every age and

2. blood pressure should be stabilized at a low level.

The findings of major recent studies have made it necessary to adjust the
formerly acceptable limits (the World Health Organization (WHO), 1999). In
other words, the traditional limit of 160/95 mmH

as the borderline between

normal and high blood pressure has now been reduced. Consequently, the
normal values have been “lowered” by WHO, the German Hypertension
Society and the American Hypertension Committee.

A pathologically high blood pressure
is now defined as follows:
Systolic value of 140 mmH

or more

and/or a diastolic value of 90 mmH

or more–provided that these values
are repeatedly obtained under
standard conditions, i.e. at rest
(measured at three different times
on two different days).

This definition applies regardless of age. What formerly constituted a
borderline area with systolic values between 140 and 159 mmH

and

diastolic values between 90 and 94 mmH

is no longer considered to be a

“grey area”, but is quite clearly classed as high blood pressure. This
consequently means that medical treatment is required for blood pressure
values in excess of 140/90 mmH

Points of interest and information concerning
blood pressure and high blood pressure

Upper value (SYS.) 140 mmH

Lower value (DIA.)

90 mmH

Blood pressure exceeding both or
either of these limits is considered
hypertension.
The values should be confirmed by
repeated measurements, though.

Thanks to modern medical technology measuring blood pressure is
nowadays very easy to handle. The user-friendliness makes measuring a
lot easier, but very often a mistake can occur when assessing the measured
values. In the majority of cases it is not the whole blood pressure picture
that is taken into account but only a single measurement. The result of this
is that more than 70% of all hypertension sufferers are insufficiently treated
or not treated at all (Source: World Health Organisation (WHO)).
Now Panasonic revolutionizes the treatment of high blood pressure.

Dear customer, congratulation to the purchase of Panasonic blood
pressure watch.
For more than a decade, Matsushita has been providing blood pressure
measuring device to our customers in Europe. The product you have
purchased has passed our strict quality control, and we hope that this
can help you manage your daily blood pressure.
We wish you all the best for your health.

Blood pressure is not a fixed parameter!
The blood pressure fluctuations of this example of a day profile show why a
single value is not suitable for diagnosis and therapy.
For people with high blood pressure a fluctuation of up to 50 mmH

within the run of a day can occur.

160

140

120

100

Waking up

Going to sleep

SYS

DIA

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