Effectiveness of Written Dietary Advice for Improving Blood Lipids in Primary Care Adults-A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial (MYDICLIN).

ABSTRACT: Lifestyle management is the first line of treatment for moderately elevated blood lipids in healthy individuals. We investigated the effectiveness of providing food-based written advice for lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (intervention) or triglycerides (control) in a pragmatic randomized controlled trial with two parallel arms from 2018-2019 at a rural primary health care center. We sent feedback letters after 3 weeks and 6 months. Out of the 113 adult primary care patients randomized, 112 completed the study. There were no differences between the intervention and control groups for changes in LDL cholesterol after 3 weeks (mean ± standard deviation -0.21 ± 0.38 vs. -0.11 ± 0.34 mmol/L, p = 0.45) or 6 months (-0.05 ± 0.47 vs. 0.02 ± 0.41 mmol/L, p = 0.70)

SUBMITTER: Rydell A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8912386 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature