Best Science Medicine Podcast - BS without the BS
Jul 23, 2026 · 36 min · 12 segments
In episode 625, Mike K and James invite Danielle Perry and Tony Nickonchuk to the podcast to talk about the evidence around blood pressure measurement techniques. You might be surprised by what does…
Tony NickonchukGuestJames McCormackHost
Danielle PerryGuestMike KolberHost
actually, you know, sometimes when you start these tools, you find little bits and pieces here and there, and you kind of have to fit them together.
In this case, we found one giant systematic review that looked exactly at what we were asking.
It was literally titled Sources of Inaccuracy in the Measurement of Adult Patients' Resting Blood Pressure
So it was a very large systematic review of really any study that had looked at any... portion of the technique of measuring blood pressure and what impact that might have had on patients like the accuracy of their blood pressure readings.
The challenge was because it was so large was finding sort of what was relevant and also well done.
There was a lot of studies in that systematic review that weren't all that great, um, very small, like there was some with six patients or something.
So we tried to stick to just the, the higher quality randomized trials where we could.
Um, and then there were a few sort of newer, uh, studies that were done that we looked at.
actually, you know, sometimes when you start these tools, you find little bits and pieces here and there, and you kind of have to fit them together.
In this case, we found one giant systematic review that looked exactly at what we were asking.
It was literally titled Sources of Inaccuracy in the Measurement of Adult Patients' Resting Blood Pressure
So it was a very large systematic review of really any study that had looked at any... portion of the technique of measuring blood pressure and what impact that might have had on patients like the accuracy of their blood pressure readings.
The challenge was because it was so large was finding sort of what was relevant and also well done.
There was a lot of studies in that systematic review that weren't all that great, um, very small, like there was some with six patients or something.
So we tried to stick to just the, the higher quality randomized trials where we could.
Um, and then there were a few sort of newer, uh, studies that were done that we looked at.
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