Telehealth visits plus home monitoring may be an effective way to help people reach and maintain their blood pressure goals, a new study finds.
The study, in the April 2025 issue of Hypertension, included 2,720 older adults enrolled in a telehealth blood pressure management program that lasted up to six months. Participants used home blood pressure devices that automatically transmitted their readings to hospital computers. Researchers also reviewed the participants’ in-office blood pressure readings from six months before and up to 3.5 years after the program.
About one-third of the participants successfully completed the program and achieved their home blood pressure goal of less than 130/80 mm Hg. Nearly 90% maintained that goal for up to 3.5 years. Among participants who left the program before reaching their blood pressure goal, only about 64% reached and maintained that goal.