Inter‐Arm Blood Pressure Differences in Young, Healthy Patients

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Population

877 young, healthy patients (flight academy applicants and designated aviators)

Comparison

Blood pressure measurement on both arms vs Initial measurement in right arm vs left arm vs…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

Discussion

Inter-arm BP differences >10 mm Hg are common in young healthy adults; hypothesis-generating for normal variation and should not yet change practice.

Population

877 young, healthy patients (flight academy applicants and designated aviators)

Intervention

Blood pressure measurement on both arms

Comparator

Initial measurement in right arm vs left arm vs arm order not recorded

Outcome

Inter-arm blood pressure difference (IAD)surrogate

Inter-arm blood pressure differences >10 mm Hg are common in young healthy individuals and are independent of which arm is measured first.

Grossman et al. (2013) studied this question.

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Inter-arm BP differences >10 mm Hg are common in young healthy adults; hypothesis-generating for normal variation and should not yet change practice.