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Larger Blood Pressure Cuffs, Please!

Posted by Stephanie Monk on Tue, Sep 08, 2009
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Larger Blood Pressure Cuffs, Please!If you ask any nurse or doctor about blood pressure (BP) cuffs, one of the most common questions you will receive is "Why can't we get a larger cuff?" With the obesity epidemic increasing globally, the need for larger blood pressure cuffs is becoming more pronounced. The World Health Organization states that "currently more than 1 billion adults are overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese."1

So why can't BP cuff manufacturers just make larger size cuffs?

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