Cuffbook: Blood Pressure Log

Cuffbook is the notebook that sits next to your blood pressure monitor. It does not measure anything. No app can — your iPhone has no cuff, and the ones that imply otherwise are guessing. You read the numbers off your own monitor and type them in. Cuffbook keeps them in the shape a clinic asks for, works out the average, and prints the page you take to your appointment. THE RUN, DONE PROPERLY Most home-monitoring instructions ask for the same thing: sit quietly for five minutes, take two readings a minute apart, morning and evening, for seven days — and leave the first day out of the average, because first days read high. Cuffbook is built around exactly that. It tells you which occasion is next, waits out the minute between the two readings, shows what is still missing, and averages over the right days. If your clinic asked for something different, change how long the run is or whether…