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138 of 140 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars Excellent, easy to use blood pressure monitor, January 26, 2011
By P. Smith (Northeast) See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME) This review is from: Omron Bp652 seven Series Blood Pressure Wrist Unit (Health and Beauty)
Buyer review from the Vine™ Program () I was excited to be able to review this product as I have high blood pressure and searched for many years for an easy to use, correct monitor. Years ago, the best I could find in the marketplace were upper arm, clunky auto blood pressure monitors that were hard to use and made wild, varying results. The Omron Bp652 is an unbelievable leap forward for correct and exact home monitoring of one’s blood pressure via a wrist monitor. I of course have to state at the beginning of this review that if you have hypertension, you have to be under a doctor’s care and this product doesn’t replace a physician’s care, but, it’s a great tool for monitoring at home how well your meds are , or aren’t, keeping your blood pressure under control.

To test the accuracy of this monitor, I took it with me to my doctor’s office. My physician calculated my bp as 120/81. Minutes afterward, I used the Omron which gave a measurement of 121/83. That’s remarkably close to my physicians bp measurement. Now, I wanted to look at how exact the Omron was, i.E. Were some number of measurements taken back to back close? Yes they were! Three back to back measurements by the Omron that night were 116/79, 118/81 and 118/82. Those measurements point to a high degree of precision. In my restricted testing that day, the Omron appeared to be very correct and exact. I was impressed.

I think the reason for the Omron’s excellent measurements is in big part caused by the superb information enclosed with the monitor in conjunction with excellent technology built into the monitor itself. Good sketches and descriptions are given of how and where to properly position the monitor on the wrist. Then there’s the great Heart Sense technology the Omron employs. For best results, the wrist should be at heart level, or in the “Heart Zone”. To guide the user to this Zone, the monitor uses a system of orange and blue lights. If the light is orange, you’re outside of the Zone or aren’t wearing the monitor properly and will get an erroneous reading. If the monitor is being worn properly and the wrist (with monitor) are placed inside the Heart Zone, a blue light will come on and the cuff will begin inflating. At the beginning of using this monitor I had a bit of trouble finding the right position to wear the cuff on my wrist and I also had problems finding my Heart Zone. But the orange/blue light system led me quickly to the correct way to wear the monitor , then position my wrist relative to my heart. It was a really interesting experience. When the Omron indicated (by the orange light) that everything wasn’t best, I didn’t get good readings. But when I got it right and the blue light popped on, the results stunnedly correct and exact as evidenced by the data I gave earlier. It is really a easy procedure, dummy evidence (I may be one so I should know!) and fast.

I really like this bp monitor and could greatly recommend it to anybody with blood pressure issues. High blood pressure is an insidious but serious sickness able of killing over time, and it needs to be monitored. The Omron Bp652 is a great home partner for the control of hypertension. And it also needs to be mentioned that the Omron will pick up an irregular heart beat and report that to the user valuable. If the pulse is regular, having the pulse rate calculated is convenient as I also suffer from tachycardia (an strangely fast heart rate) so I can do different actions at home and give my doctor feedback on my heart rate.

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars Fast, Convenient, movable, February 3, 2011
By Mr. Fred (Honolulu, Hawaii) See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE) This review is from: Omron Bp652 seven Series Blood Pressure Wrist Unit (Health and Beauty)
Buyer review from the Vine™ Program () The Omron wrist blood pressure unit is exactly what I wished it to be: easy to use, convenient, and most of all, quite movable.

Taking a reading is very simple and the fitted guidance system leads to no fail correct readings. You put the unit on your wrist, orienting it as shown in the directions (and a little picture on the unit itself). An orange light comes on; you fold your arm across your chest, and when the correct position is reached, a blue light comes on and the unit begins its operation. It’s possibly twice as fast as the discount store arm unit that we have, and of course so much smaller and lighter. While I did not benchmark exact readings, the wrist unit and the arm unit usually agree inside some points; since blood pressures differ all the time, I deem the accuracy good, surely good enough to tell you now if your blood pressure is too high or possibly too low.

Unlike the arm unit, the wrist unit stores up to 100 readings for each of two people. The only lack here is that the readings, as far as I can tell, can not be downloaded to a computer for review and storage. As well, setting the time and date is easy enough but requires elimination of the battery cover; I judge this a minor bother as it is something you will not have to do frequently.

All of this is great, but better is that the unit slips virtually unnoticed (in size and weight) in a briefcase or purse, and you may be able to take a reading just about anywhere and everywhere. Many of care clearly went into the design.

This product is easy to recommend. If you already have an arm unit, it is a great supplement but if you have still to purchase your 1st unit, this is the only one you may want to ever need.

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of five stars Good blood pressure monitor, January 26, 2011
By Bass Cadet (California) See all my reviews This review is from: Omron Bp652 seven Series Blood Pressure Wrist Unit (Health and Beauty)
Buyer review from the Vine™ Program () As someone with borderline hypertension, sometimes measuring my blood pressure is vital. I have been using the Microlife 3AX1 4U Premium Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor with Dot Matrix Technology for some number of years. It’s reasonably correct and easier to use in comparison to a manual blood pressure cuff.

The Omron blood pressure monitor is a alike design to the Microlife. They’re both wrist monitors that use the oscillometric measuring technique. The Omron is more convenient in that it guides the user to the correct arm position. The Microlife requires the user to set the arm in the standard position but doesn’t supply any guidance.

Some differences between the two are the Omron takes measurements from low to high while the Microlife typically takes three measurements and, like most other monitors, goes from high to low. The three measurements are meant to offer a more correct averaged reading, but it does take over three times as long.

The low to high measurement is especially convenient and useful. That means there’s no delay waiting to inflate the cuff , then waiting for the cuff to deflate while listening to the blood flow sounds/tapping. For people with elevated blood pressure, this also means no have to have the monitor inflate, waiting for sound, , then re inflating above the original pressure.

The Microlife is more sophisticated, has fitted charts, and comes with software and an interface for connecting to the computer. The charts show trends and display more info than the Omron. For many people, this and the three reading averaging can be more useful, but I favor the simpler and faster Omron.

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