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Mia Charifson1,2, Timothy Wen1,3, Bonnie Zell1
1Delfina Care Inc, San Francisco, CA, United States.
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User engagement with remote blood pressure monitoring during pregnancy is critical to optimize the associated benefits of blood pressure control and early detection of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. In our study population of pregnant individuals, we found that connected blood pressure cuffs, which automatically sync measures to a monitoring platform or health record, increase engagement (2.13 [95% CI 1.36-3.35] times more measures per day) with remote blood pressure monitoring compared to unconnected cuffs that require manual entry of measures.
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