Lontano, Alberto Marziali, Eleonora Galletti, Caterina Mazza, Eduardo Gambioli, Stefano Galasso, Valerio Mingarelli, Alessandro D'Ambrosio, Floriana Tamburrano, Andrea Paolini, Massimo
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Frontiers in Public Health
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent a major threat to health and primary prevention outstands as the most effective instrument to face this issue, addressing multiple risk factors at a time and influencing behavioral patterns. Community nurses have been involved in many interdisciplinary prevention activities, resulting in effective control of...
Onaisi, Racha Dumont, Roxane Hasselgard-Rowe, Jennifer Safar, David Haller, Dagmar M. Maisonneuve, Hubert
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Frontiers in Medicine
Background Statins are a first line, evidence-based yet underprescribed treatment for cardiovascular primary prevention. In primary care settings, multimorbidity is a complex situation which makes it difficult to apply prevention guidelines. Aim To assess the associations between multimorbidity and prescription of statins in accordance with the 201...
Chang, Wei-Yuan Chiu, Han-Mo
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Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common cancer with an increasing incidence worldwide. The implementation of a mass screening program has been proven effective in reducing the global burden of CRC, but its effectiveness is not ideal and some metabolic derangements and lifestyle factors were reported to be attributable for such a deficit. Implementing p...
Halabi, Zeina Osman, Mona Hoteit, Reem
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Chronic illness
To assess the awareness and have an insight on practice patterns of primary care physicians (PCPs) with respect to several professional primary cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) preventive guidelines. This is a cross-sectional study, questionnaire-based using a non-probability convenience sampling. Data collection occurred at the annual conferences of...
Leite, Luis Matos, Pedro Leon-Justel, Antonio Espírito-Santo, Claudio Rodríguez-Padial, Luis Rodrigues, Fernando Orozco, Domingo Redon, Josep
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
There have been several approaches to building charts for CV risk, all of which have both strengths and limitations. Identifying early organ damage provides relevant information and should be included in risk charts, although the direct relationship with risk is imprecise, variability between operators at the time to assess, and low availability in...
Ryou, In Sun Kim, Ju Young Park, Hwa Yeon Oh, Sohee Kim, Sehun Kim, Hwa Jung
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Frontiers in Medicine
The reported beneficial effects of statins on cardiovascular outcome based on risk assessment are inconsistent. Therefore, we investigated statin therapy effectiveness for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to the Korean Risk Prediction Model (KRPM). Subjects aged 40–79 years with low density lipoprotein cholesterol (...
Sanchez, Alvaro Elizondo-Alzola, Usue Pijoan, Jose I. Mediavilla, Marta M. Pablo, Susana Sainz de Rozas, Rita Lekue, Itxasne Gonzalez-Larragan, Susana Llarena, Marta Larrañaga, Olatz
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Frontiers in Medicine
Introduction A substantial proportion of individuals with low cardiovascular risk receive inappropriate statin prescription for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) instead of the evidence-based recommendations to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors. This study reports on the structured process performed to design targeted de-implemen...
Yoshida, Makoto Miyatake, Hirotomo Masunaga, Hidehisa Kosaka, Makoto Kaneda, Yudai Kotera, Yasuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshitaka Tsunetoshi, Chie Yoshida, Izumi Ogawa, Fubuki
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Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
This study aimed to evaluate a risk of flooding and landslides among home-care patients, to reveal an extent to which patients require support for evacuation, and to determine whether risk was accurately perceived among the patients. This is a cross-sectional study targeting the patients who were actively treated at the home-care clinic in Fukui Pr...
Eswaran, Arun Meisner, Brad A
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Journal of aging and physical activity
This study used a randomized online survey design to examine the potential influence of ageism on physical activity (PA) prescription for hypothetical patients with prediabetes of different chronological ages. Participants included 356 kinesiology students who were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. Each condition presented a clinical cas...
Molnar, Lena Hendry, Natalie A
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Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals
Primary prevention of violence against women (PVAW) strategies and campaigns aim to address and challenge violence-supportive behaviour and normative social structures to intervene before violence happens. Towards this aim, from 2014 to 2019, The Line was a public Australian Commonwealth-supported PVAW campaign on social media that targeted young p...
