Why the study?
Receiving a cardiovascular disease screening result may serve as a teachable moment for preventive behavioural change in asymptomatic individuals.
Does receiving an increased coronary artery calcification score result improve prevention-seeking behavior and medication compliance compared to an increased traditional risk score in asymptomatic individuals?
Does receiving an increased coronary artery calcification score result improve prevention-seeking behavior and medication compliance compared to an increased traditional risk score in asymptomatic individuals?
Receiving an increased coronary artery calcification score leads to significantly higher rates of general practitioner consultation and preventive medication use compared to traditional risk assessment.
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May support greater preventive actions with CAC scoring; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Introduction A teachable moment for preventive behavioural change can occur when asymptomatic individuals receive their cardiovascular disease screening result. This study investigated prevention-seeking behaviour and compliance with preventive treatment of participants of the population-based Risk Or Benefit IN Screening for CArdiovascular disease (ROBINSCA) trial after receiving a screening result. Methods Asymptomatic Dutch individuals ( n = 43,447) were randomly assigned (1:1:1) to screening for cardiovascular disease by either traditional risk assessment (intervention arm A), or determining the amount of coronary artery calcification (intervention arm B), or to usual care (control arm). A random sample ( n = 600) of ROBINSCA participants with a screening result (arms A and B) received an online questionnaire (in 2017) to measure the impact of a cardiovascular disease screening result in low and increased (arm A: risk > 10%; arm B: Agatston ≥ 100) risk groups. Results Of all respondents (438/600; 73%) 63.5% were men and the mean age ( ± standard deviation) was 63.8 ± 6.9 years. Individuals with an increased coronary artery calcification score consulted their general practitioner more often compared to increased risk individuals from arm A: 140/149 (94%) and 86/137 (62.8%), respectively ( P < 0.001). Current use of blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs was significantly higher in the increased coronary artery calcification score group (108/140; 77.1%), compared to the group with an increased traditional risk (35/80, 43.8%; P < 0.001). Self-reported compliance was high (98.1–100%). Conclusion Receiving the screening result might be a teachable moment that can enhance cardiovascular disease prevention-seeking behaviour through consulting a general practitioner and high compliance with preventive treatment. The impact of the screening result was more profound in the increased coronary artery calcification score group. Trial registration number: NTR6471
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