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November 23, 2015CirculationOpen Access

Mobile Health Devices as Tools for Worldwide Cardiovascular Risk Reduction and Disease Management

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Why the study?

Do mobile health (mHealth) tools improve lifestyle behaviors and management related to cardiovascular diseases worldwide?

Population

Patients with or at risk for cardiovascular diseases worldwide

Design

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Authors

JPJohn D. PietteJLJustin M. ListGRGurpreet Rana

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Overview

Supports mHealth in LMICs for CV prevention; leaves open need for rigorous RCTs to confirm efficacy.

Structured PICO

Do mobile health (mHealth) tools improve lifestyle behaviors and management related to cardiovascular diseases worldwide?

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Population
Patients with or at risk for cardiovascular diseases worldwide
I
Intervention
Mobile health (mHealth) tools including interactive voice response calls, short message service (SMS), smartphones, and multimodal interventions
O
Outcome
Improvement in lifestyle behaviors and management related to cardiovascular diseases

Mobile health tools, particularly interactive voice response and text messaging, are feasible worldwide and show promise in improving cardiovascular risk factors and disease management.

Cite This Study

Piette et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fd27a81801985354490242https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.114.008723
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