ESSENTIAL Wireless Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor

At home I use an old Omron HEM-711 tabletop blood pressure meter (BPM) that has been checked several times against BPMs in various doctors' offices. I want a more compact BPM for travel. My doctor recommended the QardioArm BPM, but it is apparently no longer available. I ordered the well-reviewed Omron Evolv, but the advertised dimensions do not include the permanently attached rigid cuff, which makes it only slightly smaller than the old tabletop model: it is not compact for travel. I returned it without further testing. I considered the Withings BPM, which is more compact, but it gets a lot of poor reviews for accuracy and durability (along with many good ones, to be fair). I also looked at three Wellue BPMs with similar general designs and sizes, but unlike the others discussed here, none of those were listed on the AMA's BPM validation site (Google "Validate BP") as of 7/7/2024, so I avoided them.This A&D (also written AND) UA-1200BLE generally resembles the Qardio, Withings, and Wellue BPMs, with a similar design, small size, and cell-phone based functionality. It is USB rechargeable (micro USB plug, not USB C), and is made by a well established Japanese company that produces lots of consumer and some professional medical equipment, including many other models of BPMs, some of which do well in "best-of" reviews. The UA-1200BLE had only 2 reviews here, one 5-star and the other 2-star. I gave it a shot based on the reputation of the company and its other products.The photos compare the sizes of the three BPMs. The A&D UA-1200BLE has the black cuff with blue trim; the Omron Evolve has the all-black cuff; and the old Omron HEM-711 has the grey cuff.Here are the dimensions of four BPMs including the cuff, all measured rolled up for packing, with batteries, but without the charger or power brick, since they should all last months without needing to plug in.- Old Omron tabletop HEM-711 (measured by me): 175 x 115 x 65 mm; 569 grams- Omron Evolv (measured by me): 121 x 100 x 90 mm; 291 grams- Withings (from their website): 155 x 65 x 50 mm; 250 grams- A&D UA-1200BLE (measured by me): 152 x 60 x 60 mm; 225 gramsSo the A&D is close to the smallest by volume, and is the lightest.I am pleased with the A&D UA-1200BLE. Its Heart Track app (Android or iOS) is basic but works smoothly, encouraging but not requiring you to take two readings and average them, offering basic graphs of readings over time, and allowing you both to see the data easily on your phone and to export it or share it with a doctor's office or Google Fit (I have not tried the last two options). It also works with A&D's bluetooth scales and pulse oximeters, and will track manually entered thermometer, blood glucose, and respiration rate readings, although I am not using any of those features. I sometimes had to try more than once to get the phone to connect to the BPM. Holding the phone close to the BPM and at least 40 cm away from my wireless mouse, iPad, etc. seems to eliminate that problem.I have not yet had compared the A&D BPM to one in a doctor's office. But I did test the A&D against the Omron HEM-711 that I have been using, in six sets of readings over five days. My blood pressure is always higher in the first measurement, so I discarded the first reading of each of the six sets. Then I took two measurements with one BPM, two with the other, two more with the first, and two more with the other. I alternated which BPM I would start with. I averaged the four readings of each BPM in each of the six sets of tests and noted the differences between the averages in each set. The A&D averaged 0.5 mm Hg higher for systolic readings, 4.0 mm Hg higher for diastolic readings, and 1 beat per minute lower for heart rate. Since both units claim to be accurate to ±3.0 mm Hg, this agreement is within the claimed range. The means of the standard deviations for each set (I don't know if a statistician would approve of that) for the A&D BPM were 4.5 (systolic), 2.6 (diastolic), and 0.9 (heart rate); for the HEM-711, it was 3.8 (systolic), 2.5 (diastolic), and 1.9 (heart rate). That is, the A&D BPM gave slightly more variable blood pressure readings, and slightly less variable heart rate readings. Since actual blood pressure varies fairly rapidly for reasons as transietn as changes in what you thinking about, and BPM measurements of it are imperfect, we can't expect exact agreement. The bottom line is that the A&D agrees reasonably well the old tabletop Omron that I have been trusting, so the A&D should be accurate enough to use while traveling.I can't speak yet to battery life or durability. But for now, the A&D UA-1200BLE meets my need for a compact travel blood pressure monitor. I will take it on my next month-long trip, and if all goes well, on many to follow.

Woohoo! Finally got a Blood Pressure Monitor that easily links to Samsung Health and helps get my data into a common application, making it easy to monitor and track the data. This device is portable though would require a little room in your baggage. It comes with a nice travel bag that makes it easy to put it all together in your luggage so you can more easily carry this with you. I appreciate that this monitor uses AA batteries (versus the AAA batteries that the other monitors that I have acquired seem to favor). I tend to be able to get the batteries that I like more easily in AA sizes, so this makes it a bit easier to handle my battery requirements.Tracking my blood pressure should get much easier with this device as I use it over time. Being able to track the history in Samsung Health app will be really useful for me as it makes it easy for me to see and also makes it easy to bring up the information when I am in the doctor's office for a regular visit. Definitely happy with this purchase.

The right device for the right reason. Works like a champ and very reliable. Easy to setup and use. Verifiable results.

I love the App. It allows me to track my weight and blood sugar as well. I can then see a chart displayed weekly or monthly.I can’t swear by the accuracy. The DIA number seems to be correct but when my husband uses his manual blood pressure monitor and I compare the two, the SYS number on this one is always 5 points or more lower. So now I just add 5 points to whatever number it gives me. The DIA number is the most important and this seems to be in range.Aside…I have lowered my blood pressure significantly by paying attention to sodium on food labels and cooking more. I don’t use salt in my cooking instead I use the DASH brand and fresh herbs for spicing my foods.I found out that in most cases the smaller the serving size, the higher the sodium content is on most products.I started looking for low sodium foods and I found no-salt chips, pastas and pasta sauces as well. FLORA has a homestyle pasta sauce with no salt added. Gia Russa also has one and if you have a SPROUTS store near you, they have Michael’s of Brooklyn and their house brand no-salt classic marinara. I use Barilla whole grain Penne pasta. It had 0mg of sodium.(Plse note - I am not been paid for this review). I’m sharing because it took me a long time to find these products.Fast foods and Thai foods have lots of sodium, I was eating lots of Thai curry dishes and this contributed to the spike in my BP.I also found out that restaurants will prepare fish and some chicken dishes without salt if you ask.I’m weird but I now travel with some DASH Southwest Chipotle seasoning blend in a small container and sprinkle on my fish or chicken when I go to a restaurant since I order it without salt.Of course we know that food is only a part of the equation, our weight and mental health also contributes to high blood pressure.Let us become proactive and try to take back our health…Let our food be our medicine, and let medicine be our food.Good luck on this journey!

Nice little unit. I love the Bluetooth feature. It keeps a record on my phone so I don't have to keep a written list. Just keeps Bluetooth record of one person, but can be used by everyone!

This device is fantastic. I have a heart condition and now I can share my issues with my doctor on my phone. It communicated with their app on my phone immediately. I highly recommend this blood pressure monitor.

Great product and accurate

It is a good quality blood pressure monitor. It is easy to use and the results are accurate. I correlated them with the readings from my doctor’s office. I would have rated it 4, and maybe 5 if it would link to my iPhone / iPad as it advertised. I did send the company (2) emails, but received no response. You can manually enter the readings in the dashboard, but can’t link with Bluetooth.