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New Approaches to Evaluating and Monitoring Blood Pressure

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Digital health innovations for hypertension include cuffless blood pressure sensors, wireless smartphone-enabled upper arm blood pressure monitors, mobile applications, and remote monitoring technologies. Wearable trackers have drawn interest from medical professionals and patients alike. They have the potential to improve hypertension control and medication adherence through easier logging of repeated blood pressure measurements, better connectivity with health-care providers, and medication reminder alerts. With increasing emphasis on home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to confirm hypertension prior to treatment, such devices also can help improve the diagnostic landscape. However, privacy, accuracy, and cost concerns have prevented widespread clinical uptake. To foster implementation, device designers and clinical researchers should collaborate on development of rigorous clinical trials that test cardiovascular outcomes associated with emerging technologies. We review the current literature on mobile health technologies and novel diagnostic and management protocols and make recommendations on how to incorporate these innovations into practice.

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Correspondence to Elizabeth M. Goldberg.

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Dr. Goldberg declares no conflict of interest. Dr. Levy declares personal fees and non-financial support from The Medicine Company and Chiesi USA.

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Dr. Goldberg received research funding for this work from the Center of Gerontology and Healthcare Research, Brown University, AHRQ T32 post-doctoral training grant (PI: Mor, Grant No. T32 HS000011). Dr. Phillip Levy is currently funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (PI: Levy - MD 5 R01 MD005849-05).

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Goldberg, E.M., Levy, P.D. New Approaches to Evaluating and Monitoring Blood Pressure. Curr Hypertens Rep 18, 49 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11906-016-0650-9

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