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Blood Pressure Cuff

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This cuff is placed at the top of your arm and measures how your heart pumps blood around your body. The cuff clamps around your arm for a short time occasionally, and when it does that it’s measuring your blood pressure. Your blood pressure is measured several times while you’re asleep. In hospitals, we call this a blood pressure cuff.