A medium blood pressure cuff is designed for people of average weight, and will not give an accurate reading on an obese adult. Instead, it will provide a reading that is much higher, due to excessive and improper constriction when the cuff is inflated. For a paper on the issue, a thesis statement could be along the lines of: Due to a lack of properly-sized blood pressure cuffs, many obese people are receiving inaccurate blood pressure readings that are much higher than their true blood pressure.
