Home Health Monitoring

A home monitor is only as good as its cuff fit and your measuring routine. These are the five upper-arm models worth buying, and the public validation list to check before you spend anything.

Most home readings are wrong for boring reasons — talking during the measurement, a cuff over a sleeve, one reading instead of three. Here is the protocol clinicians actually want you to follow.

A pulse oximeter reads oxygen saturation and pulse, and nothing else. Here is where that number is genuinely useful, where it misleads, and why skin pigmentation changes the reading.