Mobile app may help lower BP with targeted coaching before, after menopause

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A mobile health app helped lower blood pressure for those with hypertension, especially women.

The app provides tailored CV health coaching for women before, during and after menopause.

A mobile health app may improve blood pressure control for people with hypertension, especially among women during and after menopause, researchers reported.

The results of a study evaluating sex- and age-related changes in BP among participants in a mobile health app program were published in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology .

“There is a dearth of data on women and menopause, yet this is a time of heightened cardiovascular risk,” Jayne Morgan, MD , cardiologist and vice president of medical affairs at Hello Heart, told Healio. “As a cardiologist, this is particularly