Apps don’t make at-home blood pressure monitoring better

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Apps don’t make at-home blood pressure monitoring better
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Blood pressure only drops a small amount.

with education support programs, regular counseling about medications from pharmacists, or systems that send regular updates to doctors.

Those types of add-ons, though, are expensive and time-consuming. Apps, on the other hand, are cheap and quick — and some blood pressure cuffs now come with paired apps that can interpret the results and make recommendations.divided over 2,000 patients with high blood pressure into two groups. The people in one group were sent an OMRON blood pressure monitor, and the people in the other group were sent the same monitor along with instructions to set up the OMRON Connect smartphone app.

After six months, both groups had small reductions in their blood pressure, but there was no difference between the two groups. The authors had hoped the app could be a more efficient way of making at-home blood pressure management better, they wrote in the study, but the results showed that it wasn’t helping.has shown other apps have helped improve blood pressure in certain groups.

That won’t stop groups from trying to build devices and apps like this. Blood pressure is a major target for tech companies, and many (like

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