Midupper Arm Circumference Outperforms Weight-Based Measures of Nutritional Status in Children with Diarrhea. Journal of Nutrition , 2015; DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.209718 Cite This Page : ...

Measurement of upper arm circumference. The measurement tape guide for Critikon cuffs shown in this figure provides a circumference measurement and a reference color stripe for neonatal cuff size.

The Goldilocks Test. People with an arm circumference of 20-25 cm should use a smaller cuff than the regular size, Brady and colleagues report. Circumferences of 25.1-32 cm require a regular-sized ...

Using the wrong size arm cuff when performing a standard BP measurement can lead to “strikingly inaccurate” measurements that may lead to a hypertension misdiagnosis, according to data from a ...

Staff charged with taking BP have limited time to get accurate pressures before moving on to the next patient and may skip the step of first measuring arm circumference to size the cuff properly.

Specifically, 6.4% of adults have an arm circumference that’s above 16.5 inches—of this group, ... Before you order an at-home blood pressure device, measure your arm.

Another study published in PLOS One concluded that a higher mid-arm circumference is associated with a lower risk of mortality in male individuals, with up to 24% lower risk for all-cause ...

The study stated that the mid-upper arm circumference is "a proxy for subcutaneous [beneath the skin] fat in the upper body and is a reliable screening measure for identifying individuals with ...

Many of the cuffs that come with popular machines top out at an arm circumference of 16.5 inches (42 centimeters)—too small for about 6.4 percent of U.S. adults, or about 16.5 million people.