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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention: Interactive Digital Interventions for Blood Pressure Self-Management

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: August 2017

Workgroups: Heart Disease and Stroke Workgroup, Health Communication and Health Information Technology Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends interactive digital interventions to improve blood pressure control in people with high blood pressure. In these interventions, people get personalized, automated guidance on blood pressure self-management through digital devices — like mobile phones or telephones. CPSTF found that these interventions lead to decreases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure

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Objectives related to this resource (4)

Reduce coronary heart disease deaths — HDS‑02
Improving
Reduce stroke deaths — HDS‑03
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of adults with high blood pressure — HDS‑04
Baseline only
Increase control of high blood pressure in adults — HDS‑05
LHI label
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2017). Cardiovascular Disease: Interactive Digital Interventions for Blood Pressure Self-Management. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/cardiovascular-disease-interactive-digital-interventions-blood-pressure-self-management