A research assistant measuring the distance between the shoulder and elbow to find the mid-point of the arm so that he can then determine the mid-arm circumference, an essential step in choosing the right size cuff for measuring blood pressure.
A researcher obtains the first set of three measurements of a study participant’s blood pressure using an appropriately sized blood pressure cuff based on the measured mid-arm circumference.
Luis E. Maldonado, Ph.D., M.P.H., a postdoctoral scholar and research associate in the department of population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
Lead project staff in the MADRES offices (from left): Carmen Chavez, project manager; Milena Amadeus, project director; Ana Roman-Calixto, project manager.
Tammy M. Brady, M.D., Ph.D., vice chair for clinical research in pediatrics, associate professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric nephrology and medical director of the Pediatric Hypertension Program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
Tammy M. Brady, M.D., Ph.D., vice chair for clinical research in pediatrics, associate professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric nephrology and medical director of the Pediatric Hypertension Program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
