Why Is Ankle Blood Pressure Higher Than Brachial Pressure When Lying Supine?
From wiki - (there is reflection of the pulse pressure from the vascular bed of the feet, whereas at the elbow the artery continues on some distance to the wrist)
canada_winnipeg_woman - Moving from a standing to a supine, or lying on your back, position can prompt a variation in blood pressure.
Brachial pressure reconstruction from the finger arterial pressure waveform accounts for the bias from the supine to the upright position, eliminates the bias for the systolic but not for diastolic finger pressure and reduces the trend in diastolic bias with increased tilt duration.
From wiki - (there is reflection of the pulse pressure from the vascular bed of the feet, whereas at the elbow the artery continues on some distance to the wrist) 
canada_winnipeg_woman - Moving from a standing to a supine, or lying on your back, position can prompt a variation in blood pressure.
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