My wife purchased this as a Christmas gift for me. I was recently hospitalized and need an accurate quality blood pressure monitor. I tried it a few times and thought the readings may be higher than my actual numbers had been. When my home health care nurse came by I had her check it the "old fashioned way" and then I put on the cuff and powered my monitor and it was right on!! I have had other Homedics products and they are all first rate quality. (Posted on 1/7/09)

I don't trust oscillometric blood pressure monitors. They simply are not accurate regardless of manufacturer claims. These are the units that determine your blood pressure by measuring the small pulsing of the air pressure in the arm cuff and represent the vast majority of units on the market. My previous unit was an oscillometric and I figured it would give a moderately accurate reading about once in every four measurements. My blood pressure is textbook 120/80 most of the time but the old monitor would often read it as 140/80 or even 150/80. For some reason it got the diastolic number correct pretty much all the time but the systolic number was a crap shoot. I used to verify the result by using a stethoscope like a doctor would: watching the pressure as the measurement was being taken. I could easily tell when it was way off mark.

OK long description but the bottom line is the Homedics unit with the microphone in the cuff is 100% accurate all the time. When I first bought it I used my stethoscope in conjunction with it as I did my old monitor. I found every single measurement to be accurate without exception. I now trust it completely and don't use the stethoscope anymore. I highly recommend this product. It is top-of-the-line.

(Posted on 6/4/08)

I purchased the Homedics THERA|P BPA-300 Deluxe Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor in April 2007 to replace my agins blood pressure monitor. I bought this model based on Homedics claim that the DK technology would provide more accurate hypertension readings. Well, they were right. As soon as I read my bloop pressure with my new Homedics THERA|P, I realized that my blood pressure was actually higher than what my old blood pressure monitor was recording. The difference in accuracy was so significant that I went to my doctor to double check my BP and sure enough, the Homedics THERA|P BPA-300 was every bit as accurate as the blood pressure monitor my doctor used. The readings were right in line with each other. From that point on, it really gave me a lot of confidence in the BPA-300 with the DK technology and a lot of confidence in Homedics as a company. I believe in their product line because of my super-positive experience with the Homedics THERA|P blood pressure monitor. My suggestion to you is, if you really want to know what your blood pressure is running, then buy this unit! It will give the accuracy you deserve. (Posted on 5/30/08)