ZONABANTEN.com – A new study show someone with blood pressure high using smartphone app and monitors at home can reduce blood pressure they.
A program called Hello Heart lets people track blood pressure, their weight and physical activity, and offer tips on how to manage blood pressure.
A digital health approach to managing blood pressure, which gives people a resource for tracking conditions at home, is attractive to doctors and researchers because it can be widely distributed.
The Hello Heart program includes a monitor blood pressure which automatically sends readings directly to the app.
The app monitors trends and automatically provides users with strategies to improve blood pressure them with things like diet and exercise.
After one year of using the program, more than 85 percent of people with stage two hypertension, a condition that puts people at risk for heart disease, experienced a decrease in their systolic pressure.
It measures the amount of force that blood exerts on artery walls when the heart is working.
They remained at lower levels for three years, according to research published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
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