The 10 best blood pressure apps

Health

My Diet Coach

My Diet Coach is the fun and easy way to lose weight. The app helps you to discover what keeps you motivated, how to stay on track and avoid food cravings, and how to make small and healthful lifestyle changes.

Being obese puts you at a much higher risk of developing high blood pressure. As your weight increases, so does your blood pressure. If you are overweight and have high blood pressure, one of the best things that you can do is decrease your body weight. Even losing 10 pounds can help to lower your blood pressure.

Set your weight loss goal with My Diet Coach and track your progress. The app has a pictorial weight tracker so that you can visually see your weight decreasing. My Diet Coach provides motivating tips and quotes and rewards you when you are successful.

Sleep Cycle

Sleep Cycle is a smart alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you up in your lightest phase of sleep. Waking up in the lightest sleep phase will help you to wake up feeling well rested and relaxed.

Adults are recommended to have between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per day. It is thought that sleeping for under the recommended hours is associated with an increase in blood pressure.

The deepest sleep stage functions to restore our physical and mental health. Disruption of deep sleep may have an adverse effect on blood pressure and contribute to high blood pressure. Using Sleep Cycle can help you to set aside those all-important 7 hours of sleep and wake you up without disrupting your deepest sleep phase.

Smoke Free

Smoke Free is based on more than 20 evidence-based techniques to help you quit smoking. The app shows you how much money you have saved by not smoking, how many cigarettes you have not smoked, and the time you have been smoke-free. The app details how much of your life you have regained and shows how your health is improving.

You can identify trends in your cravings by using a map to see where they occur, notes to view patterns, and a graph to see them going down. The app also provides tips on how to deal with them.

While smoking is not a direct cause of high blood pressure, smoking increases your risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Smoking and high blood pressure both narrow the arteries. Therefore, if you smoke and have high blood pressure, your arteries may narrow at a faster rate and significantly raise your risk for heart disease.

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