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Don't worry, your monitor is good enough for the purpose of screening for hypertension. Truth is the exact values don't matter much for this purpose. Only thing that matters is the fact that people die less and develop less complications when treated based on the results. They are still useful even if the figures have some error in them.

Medicine is just statistics.



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