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I want to take a minute and talk to you about checking your blood pressure. I had this discussion yesterday and it was suggested to me to do a video on it, and I think that's probably a good idea. I'll briefly go over mechanically how to check your blood pressure, but the bigger point of this video is to talk about how much data to collect to get an understanding of what's going on. So I'll get to that in just a second. As far as mechanically how to do it, I mean we all have the experience of going into our doctor's office or dentist or whoever, and you get your blood pressure checked and maybe it's good, maybe it's not, but it's a single reading and a single reading is never, well, I shouldn't say never. A single reading is generally not considered to be enough to make clinical decisions like should we put someone on medication or not.

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Now, there are readings that are so out of the normal range that you have to take action, right? But when you're talkin...