'People like you?': how people with hypertension make sense of future cardiovascular risk-a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines recommend that patients' future CVD risk (as a percentage) is estimated and used to inform shared treatment decisions. We sought to understand the perspectives of patients with hypertension on their future risk of CVD.

Design

Qualitative, semistructured interviews and thematic analysis.

Participants

People with hypertension who had not experienced a cardiovascular event recruited from primary care.

Setting

Participants were purposively sampled from two primary care practices in South London. Interviews were transcribed, and a thematic analysis was conducted.

Results

24 people participated; participants were diverse in age, sex, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Younger working-aged people we

SUBMITTER: Marshall IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231586 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature