The patient and their medication
Age, sex, weight, height and medical notes, the usual medication and the period's, and how many doses they took, didn't take or left without a record.
Vitalinfo is a free app where your patients log their blood pressure measurements at home. It shows them to you in a report with averages, classification and time-of-day profile, and tells you how each number was calculated. You do not need to create any account.
The example has every version of the report, with the log and the studies of an invented patient.
What you receive
Your patient chooses the period and shares it with you. You open it in any browser.
What the report contains
Age, sex, weight, height and medical notes, the usual medication and the period's, and how many doses they took, didn't take or left without a record.
The period's average with its classification, readings above 180/120 with their dates, the home cutoff applied to the average, and how many measurements fell into each category.
The monitor used for each measurement and where it was taken (home, pharmacy, doctor's office), with a notice if any was taken with a wrist or finger device.
Systolic, diastolic and pulse by date, and the average for the morning, the afternoon and the evening.
Each measurement with its time, its comment and each of its readings, exactly as they were logged.
The patient's notes on meals, coffee, sleep or symptoms next to their measurements, their doctor visits with the instructions and whether the medication changed, and their studies with date and result.
If you set a target, for example below 130/80, your patient enters it: the report says whether the period's average is below it, and the charts draw it as a dotted line.
What your patient asked their measurements, for example how it reads in the morning and at night, answered for the same period. Through the link they arrive only if the patient includes them.
If a family member logs readings for your patient, the report counts how many measurements someone else entered, without giving their name.
If your patient measures on both arms, the report shows them side by side, with the difference between them, never merged into a single average. Whether that difference is large or small is for you to judge.
How it is calculated
Each time the patient sits down to measure is a measurement, and each time they press the button is a reading.
With which guideline
If you would rather your patient used the other one, it is changed in Settings. Saved measurements are not touched: only how they are read changes.
Default
| Category | Systolic | and / or | Diastolic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | < 130 | and | < 80 |
| Borderline | 130 – 139 | or | 80 – 89 |
| HTN level 1 | 140 – 159 | or | 90 – 99 |
| Level 2 hypertension | ≥ 160 | or | ≥ 100 |
If the systolic is 140 or higher with the diastolic below 90, the category adds "isolated systolic". At home, an average of 135/85 or higher is reported as elevated, on a separate line. A period is averaged without its first day, unless the patient turns it off in Settings.
SAC, FAC and SAHA. Table 1, p. 9, and Table 3, p. 12. See the publication
Optional
| Category | Systolic | and / or | Diastolic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | < 120 | and | < 80 |
| Elevated | 120 – 129 | and | < 80 |
| Stage 1 hypertension | 130 – 139 | or | 80 – 89 |
| Stage 2 hypertension | ≥ 140 | or | ≥ 90 |
American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology. See the publication
Optional
| Category | Systolic | and / or | Diastolic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | < 120 | and | < 80 |
| Normal | 120 – 129 | and | 80 – 84 |
| High-normal | 130 – 139 | or | 85 – 89 |
| Grade 1 hypertension | 140 – 159 | or | 90 – 99 |
| Grade 2 hypertension | 160 – 179 | or | 100 – 109 |
| Grade 3 hypertension | ≥ 180 | or | ≥ 110 |
If the systolic is 140 or higher with the diastolic below 90, the category adds "isolated systolic". If the systolic is below 140 with the diastolic at 90 or higher, the category adds "isolated diastolic". At home, an average of 135/85 or higher is reported as elevated, on a separate line. A period is averaged without its first day, unless the patient turns it off in Settings.
European Society of Hypertension. Table 1, p. 1886, and Table 4, p. 1897. See the publication
Optional
| Category | Systolic | and / or | Diastolic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | < 120 | and | < 80 |
| Prehypertension | 120 – 139 | or | 80 – 89 |
| Stage 1 hypertension | 140 – 159 | or | 90 – 99 |
| Stage 2 hypertension | 160 – 179 | or | 100 – 109 |
| Stage 3 hypertension | ≥ 180 | or | ≥ 110 |
If the systolic is 140 or higher with the diastolic below 90, the category adds "isolated systolic". If the systolic is below 140 with the diastolic at 90 or higher, the category adds "isolated diastolic". At home, an average of 130/80 or higher is reported as elevated, on a separate line.
Brazilian Society of Cardiology, of Hypertension and of Nephrology. Chart 3.2, p. 34, and Chart 3.4, p. 35. See the publication
Values in mmHg. The warning for a reading above 180/120 is the same with any guideline: it comes from AHA/ACC, because the consensus covers it in its chapter on emergencies. With the ESH, that reading is also classified as grade 3 hypertension, and with the Brazilian guideline, as stage 3 hypertension.
Do you see a cutoff or a citation that does not match the publication? Write to us at hello@vitalinfo.app and we will check it against the guideline.
Privacy
What it is not
It is free for them, and neither your name nor your practice's appears in the app. The install page has a QR code to show from your computer.
A question, or would you like to propose another classification guideline? Write to us at hello@vitalinfo.app.