Why the study?
Does intensive health care advice through group sessions reduce cardiovascular risk factors compared to usual advice in adults with multiple cardiovascular risk factors?
Population
681 subjects aged 30-59 years with at least two cardiovascular risk factors in addition to moderately high…
Comparison
Intensive health care advice through six group… vs Usual health care advice
Design
RCT, randomised
Follow-up
18 months
Authors
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Intensive advice yields only modest cholesterol reduction; reinforces usual primary care as sufficient while leaving outcome trials open.
Does intensive health care advice through group sessions reduce cardiovascular risk factors compared to usual advice in adults with multiple cardiovascular risk factors?
Intensive health care advice via group sessions provided only limited additional benefit in reducing total cholesterol and Framingham risk compared to usual advice in primary care.
Lindholm et al. (1995) studied this question.
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