Customer Reviews
Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor 
2007-11-17
Prevention WS-820PV. Product compact, easy to read and accurate. Just follow directions. The top for the case will not stay on poor design.
Should have listened 
2007-09-08
Wrist monitors are not accurate. I have confirmed this by testing it side by side with arm cuffs. I am sad I wasted my money.
Best of the best. 
2007-08-17
This product represents the best of good'ol American design and engineering expertise. A product that is not only well made but performs far beyond average expectations for this device. Prevention; you really done good!
Prevention Blood Pressure Monitor 2007-04-10
This monitor was purchased as a replacement for a Mark of Fitness MF77 unit. The Mark of Fitness was, at best, an inferior product. If you didn't like the reading you could just re-test until you got the reading you wanted! Test varied from 105/50 to 145/80 at the same siting. The Prevention WS-820PV is consistant, accurate (compaired with a commercial cuff monitor) and of high quality. Highly reccomended!
Accurate and repeatable 2007-04-03
This replaced a similar wrist cuff meter which I was not happy with. The old meter would give very different readings on measurements made minutes apart. This meter yields essentially the same numbers for second measurements. Out of curiosity, I took it with me to my doctors office, used his large cuff (I have very large arms) and compared the readings to his equipment. Total difference was about 3%, a quite acceptable tolerance for my home measurement. Another reviewer was unhappy with the screen size and position on the bottom of the wrist. If the unit is operated as shown in the instructions, the screen size and position are perfect, the unit is at heart level, and is quite easy to read.
Overall, for home use and serious data collection and blood pressure monitoring, I like this device.
A Useful, Convenient Blood Pressure Monitor 2008-07-14
After reading a series of reviews of wrist monitors, I purchased the Prevention monitor. Although the Omron monitor was also highly rated by a British group, the Prevention monitor seemed to have all the features I thought I would need. The accuracy (relative to an Omron arm monitor) and reproducibility have been excellent. The unit is small enough to toss into my suitcase and convenient to use at work. I haven't had the unit long enough to know how durable it will be. The day I received the unit, one of my co-workers used it to check her blood pressure. She ended up going to the doctor because her pressure was so high. Even though we've had arm units at work for years, folks have been reluctant to use them because of the ritual required to use them.
Prevention WS-820PV Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor 2008-05-19
Very accurate. We checked it against our family doctors office readings and we trust it completely. Well made and easy to use.
Very quick & simple 2008-04-17
This is great for fast & simple monitoring of your blood pressure & pulse. It takes about 1 minute to give you blood pressure & pulse, and it tells you if it detects an irregular pulse (such as PVC). There's no fuss, and no stethoscope, nor hand pump, nor any of that old school stuff. The formed wrist band has a velcro strap which fastens & unfastens quickly & easily, and everything is done at the push of a button. You can do it easily all by yourself.
Note: if, for some reason, you really need super-accurate readings, then you have to be careful to have your wrist always at the same level (relative to your heart) every time you take a reading, because you can get different readings if your wrist is higher or lower than your heart; but that is true with any device. I just try to have my arm be "about" the same place (relative to the heart), so I get pretty consistent readings, and at least I know the general range. I don't care about a difference between, say, 117/69 and 119/72 -- I just want to know if I'm unusually high or low, and this is plenty accurate for that.
This device has 2 30-entry memories (to keep track for 2 different people, or to keep track of morning & evening, or something like that), but I don't even use them because I just want to know where I am at the given time. If you are interested, it will display an average of the readings in each memory, and you can look back through the last 30 individual readings in each memory.
The one negative point is that it needs ALKALINE batteries, not nickle metal hydride (apparently because the electric field from the hydride batteries would interfere with the electronics the device uses to detect pulses). It needs 2 AAA batteries, and so far one set of batteries has lasted me 100 readings or so.
Great 2008-02-23
You would not be disappointed in this blood pressure cuff. It works great for my husband and I. You can both keep your blood pressure log so easy without having to write it down. Very easy .
Dr. says "most accurate wrist monitor he's seen" 2008-02-22
We couldn't get our old cuff monitor to work properly, so we decided on trying a wrist monitor. After much study, I chose this one. Turns out the Dr. said it was more accurate than any he's seen. Now we can take our blood pressure at home without having to go to the doctor's office or grocery store. The doctor knows the variation and can determine if our meds are working properly. If my husband can use it...it's really easy to use! He won't mess with anything that is difficult to work with. I would definitely recommend this unit.
