Daily monitoring of a health concern...
leads to better health overall, and graphing your vital data is the best way to monitor your health concern.
Why Graph?
Cyclical changes occur in the human body all the time - every hour, every day, every month. Events or conditions that alter normal cycles can interfere with many body functions and induce or facilitate disease. Daily non-cyclical changes in the body also occur due to variations in one's sleep, food, drink, exercise, stress - both physical and emotional - and one's environment. These also can make one less resistant to disease.
Vital signs including blood pressure, heart rate, basal body temperature, body-fat content and weight are good indicators of the cyclical and non-cyclical changes that are occurring in the body. Monitor the vital signs daily, and you monitor the body's general health condition. Graph the vital signs, and the trends become apparent; analysis becomes faster and more accurate.
When a health condition exists, such as hypertension, asthma, diabetes, or heart failure, graphing the vital signs with other factors such as blood glucose or peak-flow meter readings - while comparing the data to answers to related questions such as asthma - produces an excellent tool for managing health conditions.