Some Consequences of Mass Health Examinations in the Busselton Community

Seventy-five persons (57 male and 18 female) with a high risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) were randomly assigned in equal numbers to three 8-week behavioral treatment programs. All three treatments were designed to alter simultaneously a number of risk-elevating behavior patterns, in the expectation that change in any one behavior pattern would reinforce change in others. Weight, blood pressure, and aerobic fitness were regularly assessed in all subjects. Serum lipids were also measured, but less frequently. All three interventions produced significant beneficial changes in the major objective measures, and the changes were well maintained after 12 months. The most improved group exhibited the following mean changes: weight loss of 9.2 kg, reductions in blood pressure of 12.9/8.8 mm Hg, improvement in aerobic capacity of 33%, reduction in serum cholesterol of 0.45 mmol/liter, and reduction in current overall CHD risk of 41%. The effectiveness of the interventions was positively related to the degree to which the programs emphasized training in, and detailed application of, behavioral change principles.

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Changing coronary heart disease risk-factor status: The effects of three behavioral programs

Lovibond

Birrell

Langeluddecke

1986

J Behav Med

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Vitamin and Nutritional Status of a Part Aboriginal Community

Kamien

Nobilet

Cameron

et al. 1974

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

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Summary: An epidemiological survey was conducted in a part‐Aboriginal community to assess nutritional status with particular reference to vitamins. Multiple subclinical vitamin deficiencies were found throughout all age groups. In particular children below three years and women of child bearing age had low blood vitamin levels. Twenty‐three per‐cent of these children exhibited growth retardation, fifty‐two percent iron deficiency anaemia and fifty percent parasitic infestation of the intestine. Suggestions are made about how to improve the vitamin intake of the community. It is anticipated that these data will be the basis for a longitudinal study of the effect of fortified bread on the nutritional state of this community.

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Coronary Risk Factors in a Rural Community Which Includes Aborigines: lnverell Heart Disease Prevention Programmed

Simons

Whish

Marr

et al. 1981

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

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Coronary risk factors in a rural community which includes Aborigines: lnverell heart disease prevention programme. L. Simons, P. Whish, B. Marr, A. J o n e s , J. S i m o n s , Aust. N.Z. J. Med.. 1981, 11, pp. 386-390.A coronary risk factor screening and referral service was established in Inverell, New South Wales, in July 1978. In non-Aboriginal subjects, there was an increasing prevalence of coronary risk factors with age (hyperlipidaemia, hypertension and obesity), except for cigarette smoking which showed a reverse trend. Allowing for minor differences in sampling, the average /eve1 of plasma chalesterol, blood pressure and cigarette smoking in rural lnverell closely resembled that in Sydney. However, lnverell subjects of both sexes were consistently more overweight at all ages. Aboriginal subjects of both sexes showed an increased prevalence of hypertriglyceridaemia and cigarette smoking compared with non-Aboriginal subjects, whilst hypertension and obesity were also more prevalent in the Aboriginal females. High coronary risk lnverell subjects sustained significant improvements in serum cholesterol, cigarette smoking and body weight levels over one year of follow-up. Community-wide control of hypertension was initially unsatisfactory and this remained so.AUGUST 1% 1 COROSAR'r RISK IS A RURAL C OMMUNITY

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Some Consequences of Mass Health Examinations in the Busselton Community

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Changing coronary heart disease risk-factor status: The effects of three behavioral programs

Changing coronary heart disease risk-factor status: The effects of three behavioral programs

Vitamin and Nutritional Status of a Part Aboriginal Community

Coronary Risk Factors in a Rural Community Which Includes Aborigines: lnverell Heart Disease Prevention Programmed

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