www.heartmonitron.com Patients with hard to manage high blood pressure, also called hypertension, or people with elevated blood glucose or blood sugar may want to go beyond the occasional monitoring of their numbers. Some hypertensive or diabetic persons will have their blood pressure taken or their blood glucose level, their glycemia, analyzed only when they visit their doctor. This is, of course, better than nothing. However it does provide only that one measurement and is valid for only that instant. Given that blood pressure or glycemia can vary wildly, that one reading may be actually higher than your average value for that time of day. It may also turn out to be lower than the real value. Regular and more frequent monitoring will provide instead a large set of numbers that enables you to compute an average value that is much more representative of your real average for either blood pressure or blood glucose. Of course, you don’t have to go to your doctor to do that. Good blood pressure monitors and meters are available for home use. The way it used to be done was that the patient would have to record the value in a log book every time and sometimes do some computing and even draw some graphs. This being tedious, many were just giving up. Fortunately many of today’s monitors and meters have memory features, but some can also be used with special health management software that can download the data directly from the monitoring machine and generate all kinds of …