Content Analysis of smartphone apps on Google Play Store to assist in self-management of Hypertension in the Indian context

The study aimed to review the available apps on hypertension/high blood pressure and DASH Diet, and investigate their main functional and analytical characteristics. The search was conducted in February 2021 in India using the Google Play Store database to identify currently available Android-based apps related to self-management of hypertension/ high blood pressure. Keywords used were: Hypertension’, ‘High Blood Pressure’, ‘DASH Diet’, ‘Hypertension Diet’, and ‘Blood pressure diet’. A total of 822 apps were screened based on the duplicates, inclusion, and exclusion criteria. In the end, a total of 210 were included for further analysis.