Lifestyle counseling in patients with hypertension in primary health care and its association with antihypertensive pharmacotherapy
Sebastian Lindblom,
Charlotte Ivarsson,
Per Wändell
et al.
Abstract:The study aimed to investigate differences in hypertensive‐ and cardio‐preventive pharmacotherapy depending on if patients with hypertension received lifestyle counseling or not, including the difference between men and women. Data from the Region Stockholm VAL database was used to identify all patients with a hypertension diagnosis and had visited a primary health care center within the past five years. Data included registered diagnoses, pharmacotherapy, and codes for lifestyle counseling. Logistic regressio… Show more
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