“People may not be aware they have high blood pressure until they suffer a significant health consequence, like a heart attack or stroke.” Monitoring blood pressure on your own, therefore, could quite literally be life-saving.
There are many reasons to keep a blood pressure monitor at home, the main one being that high blood pressure (also known as hypertension) frequently has no symptoms and can easily go undetected, explains Karishma Patwa, M.D., cardiologist at Manhattan Cardiology in New York City.
