Opportunities to Leverage Telehealth Approaches Along the Hypertension Control Cascade in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Muiruri C, Manavalan P, Jazowski SA, Knettel BA, Vilme H, Zullig LL. Opportunities to Leverage Telehealth Approaches Along the Hypertension Control Cascade in Sub-Saharan Africa. Current hypertension reports. 2019 Dec 26;21(21). 75 p. PMID: 31451940 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC7050852 NIHMSID: NIHMS1562907.

Abstract

To review the current literature on use of telehealth at different stages of the hypertension control cascade in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and to discuss opportunities to harness technology infrastructure in SSA to improve population-level blood pressure control.