Use of lifestyle interventions in primary care for individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Lifestyle interventions can be efficacious in reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors and are recommended as first-line interventions in England. However, recent information on the use of these interventions in primary care is lacking. We investigated for how many patients with newly diagnosed hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity, lifestyle interventions were recorded in their primary care electronic health record.

Design

A retrospective cohort study.

Setting

English primary care, using UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

Participants

A total of 770,711 patients who were aged 18 years or older and received a new diagnosis of hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or obesity between 2010 and 2019.

Main outcome measures

Record of lifestyle in

SUBMITTER: Lemp JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9340092 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature