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- Accurate
- Easy to use
- Good value
- Few features
- Doesn't store readings
The A&D Medical LifeSource UA-767 cuff-style blood-pressure monitor gets good user reviews for accuracy, and it passes professional tests as well. The cuff comes in three sizes -- small, medium and large – and owners say it's a good fit for most people. This self-inflating blood pressure monitor is easy to use with one-button fully automatic operation, a relatively large display and automatic shutoff. Blood pressure and pulse are shown simultaneously. If you prefer a wrist blood pressure monitor, reviews recommend the Omron HEM-637 (*est. $95, which gets good marks for convenience, but some users say accuracy can be an issue unless you get the positioning just right.
Owner-written reviews are the best source of information on the A&D Medical LifeSource UA-767 blood pressure monitor. Amazon.com has the largest number of posts, and that gives its overall rating the most credibility. Epinions has fewer entries, but a few stand out as being particularly thorough. There's also a short study by three researchers from the Cardiology Research Complex in Moscow, Russia, who test the LifeSource UA-767 for accuracy.
Our Sources
1. Amazon.com
Amazon.com, the gold standard for retail-based user review sites, has close to two dozen entries on the A&D Medical LifeSource UA-767. (The letters US, V, and UL after the model number refer to small, medium, and large cuff sizes.) The general consensus is that the UA-767 is an accurate and easy-to-use blood pressure monitor. Owners give it a near-perfect rating.
Review: LifeSource One Step Auto Inflate Blood Pressure Monitor Reviews, Contributors to Amazon.com
2. Epinions.com
Epinions has half a dozen owner-written reviews of the A&D Medical LifeSource UA-767. The average entry is longer here than at Amazon.com, and some are thorough enough to be worth a close read, but there's not enough volume to draw sweeping conclusions.
Review: A&D UA-767 One-Step Auto Blood Pressure Monitor Reviews, Contributors to Epinions.com
3. PubMed
Three Russian researchers conduct formal testing on the A&D Medical LifeSource UA-767 blood pressure monitor, publishing their findings in Aug. 2000. They find that the UA-767 "satisfied the AAMI criteria" for blood pressure measurement.
Review: Validation of A&D UA-767 device for the self-measurement of blood pressure, A.N. Rogoza, T.S. Pavlova and M.V. Sergeeva, Aug. 2000
