Blood Pressure Chart: New Application July 27, 2010

According to Consumer Reports, there is clear evidence about the advantages of using applications in blood pressure monitoring.

People were given a device for checking their blood pressure. It plugged into a phone jack, and automatically sent off the results, allowing patients and their doctors to keep track of their scores online. After six months of treatment, people using the device saw the top number of their blood pressure reading (their systolic blood pressure) drop by 12.9 mmHg. People receiving the usual treatment from their doctor saw a drop of just 9.2 mmHg—a difference of 3.7 mmHg.

Now Mateusz Mucha came up with a great app, Blood Pressure Chart, that lets users keep track of their readings, analyze and share them with their doctor.

Here’s a list of its features:

• stores your blood pressure and heart rate records
• automatically calculates average values from multiple readings
• displays history on an interactive graph
• displays all records in an informative table
• shows statistics - average values and “distribution of stages”
• lets users share all the above information on a public profile.  This feature can be turned off for privacy reasons.
• lets users set up daily reminders (doctors recommend to take readings at the same time every day)
• no installation required and it’s free