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Mobile health applications and wearable devices show promise in promoting short-term behavior changes for cardiovascular risk reduction, though long-term clinical impact remains unproven.
While mHealth applications can improve short-term lifestyle behaviors, their long-term efficacy in reducing cardiovascular events and their integration into formal clinical practice require further validation.
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Supports short-term integration of mobile health tools into cardiovascular prevention; leaves open proof of sustained clinical benefits.
Mobile health (mHealth) is the utilisation of mobile technologies in healthcare and has particular relevance in improving lifestyle behaviours which may ultimately reduce cardiovascular disease risk. Various intervention studies for example integrate self-monitoring of diet and physical activity with text messaging systems to improve intermediate outcomes. Currently the future progress of mHealth technologies in formal diagnostic and therapeutic roles is pending and includes the need to validate and standardise accelerometer and heart rate data from various devices. Data also needs to be integrated from such devices into the medical record system to facilitate communication between providers and patients. Although short-term behaviour changes have been found with technologies such as Fitbit® (Fitbit, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA), whether such technologies/interventions lead to sustained behaviour change and reduced risk of myocardial infarction and death remains to be seen.
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Kelli et al. (2017) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease prevention. Mobile health (mHealth) applications and devices was evaluated. Mobile health applications and wearable devices show promise in promoting short-term behavior changes for cardiovascular risk reduction, though long-term clinical impact remains unproven.
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