Efficacy of an mHealth App to Support Patients’ Self-Management of Hypertension: Randomized Controlled Trial

Fang Liu   ^{1, 2 *} , MD ;   Ting Song   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Ping Yu   ³ , PhD ;   Ning Deng   ⁴ , PhD ;   Yingping Guan   ¹ , BSc ;   Yang Yang   ² , MD, MSc ;   Yuanji Ma   ^{5, 6, 7} , MD, PhD

¹ Health Management Center, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China

² Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China

³ Centre for Digital Transformation, School of Computing and Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

⁴ The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

⁵ Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

⁶ Shanghai Institute Of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai, China

⁷ National Clinical Research Center for International Medicine, Shanghai, China

*these authors contributed equally