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Low salt diet, excercise, appropriate weight, taking medications as directed are all good things to do to keep B/P at its best. The biggest mistakes I've seen with people taking their own pressure is:make sure the cuff fits right---there should be markers on it for 'right fit.' If the cuff is too big, your pressure will read low. If the cuff is too small, the pressure too high.
Make sure your arm is at your heart level when you take your pressure, it's possible to have a difference if your arm is too high or too low.
Also, if you are in doubt about your readings-take your monitor to the doc's office with you, and compart what the machine gets to what a person gets taking it the good ol fashion way!
