International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 10 , Pages 704-710 , October 2009

Cellular phone and Internet-based individual intervention on blood pressure and obesity in obese patients with hypertension

  • Min-Jeong Park

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, Catholic University, 505 Banpo-Dong, Socho-Gu, Seoul 137-701, South Korea
    • Tel.: +82 2 2258 7408; fax.: +82 2 2258 7772.
    • ,
  • Hee-Seung Kim

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, Catholic University, 505 Banpo-Dong, Socho-Gu, Seoul 137-701, South Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +82 2258 7408; fax: +82 2258 7772.
    • ,
  • Kyung-Soo Kim

      Affiliations

    • Family Medicine & Integrative Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University Medical Center, #505 Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-701, South Korea
    • Tel.: +82 2 2258 6284; fax: +82 2 537 8979.

Received 14 November 2008 ,Revised 16 June 2009 ,Accepted 21 June 2009.

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PII: S1386-5056(09)00098-7

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.06.004

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 10 , Pages 704-710 , October 2009

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