Omron Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor with Comfit Cuff HEM 780

Pros: Styling. Accuracy. User friendliness. Quickness. Comfortable, auto-inflation cuff. Easy-to-read display with clock. Hard-shell storage case.

Cons: Unlike Omron's latest "HEM-780", this version can't "average" your last three readings (see explanation below).

The Bottom Line: Excellent, deluxe product. Although not the cheapest model, its combination of virtues makes it more satisfying than most.

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Pros: Automatic, battery AND AC Power, 90 measurement memory storage, irregular heartbeat detection and averaging.

Cons: None found.

The Bottom Line: After talking to a pharmacist and reading about it online, this was the unit I chose because of the features, reliability, and the price.

Review: I had an old Omron HEM 431-C that kept erroring out so I recently bought this one after it was recommended by a pharmacist who told me that Omron makes top notch BP units and they are the world's #1 brand that is recommended by doctors and pharmacists. ...

Pros: Easy to use, accurate, and stores 90 readings with dates.

Cons: None

Review: I like everything about this monitor. I found it at Sams Club for $59. It was $109 at CVS. Did alot of research. ...

Pros: Easy to use, accurate

Cons: Can be expensive

The Bottom Line: I hope I never have the need to take regular blood pressure measurements again, but if I do I am glad that I have the Omron HEM-780.

Review: When I was about 30 weeks pregnant I was diagnosed with preeclampsia, a disease marked in part by increased blood pressure. After a couple of hospitalizations my doctor agreed to let me home on bed rest so long as I could monitor my blood pressure at ...

Pros: Automatic, easy to use, stores 200 readings for 2 users.

Cons: Cuff is very sensitive. Lots of error messages.

The Bottom Line: I wish the cuff were a little more foolproof, but otherwise I really like this monitor.

Review: In a couple of months, my dear husband Bill and I will be moving to Germany. As part of the stuff that has to be done before the government will move us, I had to go get a physical. I was pretty nervous about getting the physical done because it had ...

Pros: Large display, accuracy, speed

Cons: Difficult to impossible to put "easy to use" cuff on right arm if right handed.

Review: Product is easy to use with one button start and easy to read screen on this large screen model. Appears to be accurate and reproducible. My model 780RELN was large screen version which had easily readable systolic, diastolic and pulse readings for ...

Pros: Looks nice.

Cons: Fails more and more often till it quits totally.

Review: This is the second Omron BP machine I've own in about three years. The first one went into "E" mode and kept shutting itself down. This one I hoped would be different, but it's not. After about a year of once a week use it shows an "E" for error on ...