Online tool helps control blood pressure long term

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended. Previously researchers had found that patients randomly assigned to the web-based pharmacy care did better than those who used a patient website but had no extra help or were only trained to monitor their blood pressure at home. The new findings suggest some of those benefits may hold up over the long run – even after patients stop messaging with their pharmacists, researchers said. …