Stock photos often show incorrect blood pressure checking procedure

Mihaela Măncilă

Folks figuring out how to take their blood pressure at home might be tempted to use online stock photos to see how it's done -- but they really shouldn't, a new study warns. Only about 1 in 7 stock photos found online correctly depict the right way to measure blood pressure, researchers reported in the journal Hypertension . "We expected that about 50% of images would be accurate. However, our findings were worse than expected," said lead researcher Alta Schutte , a professor of cardiovascular

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