General practice -based health checks are associated with statistically significant , albeit clinical ly small , improvements in surrogate outcome control , especially among high-risk patients .
BACKGROUND A recent review concluded that general health checks fail to reduce mortality in adults .
AIM This review focuses on general practice -based health checks and their effects on both surrogate and final outcomes .
Systematic risk factor screening and education: a community-wide approach to prevention of coronary heart disease.
Within a community-wide heart disease prevention effort , it was hypothesized that personalized risk factor screening and education would result in modified health behaviors and reduced risk factor levels for coronary heart disease . Adults from a population sample were r and omized to a community-wide screening and education program or were excluded from that program for 1 year . At the end of that year , both groups were measured for risk factor levels and related health behaviors . Those who received the screening and education program had significantly lower risk factor levels and other evidence of health behavior change , including lower blood cholesterol ( 206.9 vs 211.5 mg/dl ) , lower diastolic blood pressure ( 68.7 vs 70.0 mm Hg ) , lower resting heart rate ( 71.4 vs 72.7 bpm ) , and increased selection of low-fat and low-sodium meals in local restaurants . These data suggest that systematic risk factor screening and education may result in lower population risk for coronary heart disease
General practice -based health checks are associated with statistically significant , albeit clinical ly small , improvements in surrogate outcome control , especially among high-risk patients .
BACKGROUND A recent review concluded that general health checks fail to reduce mortality in adults .
AIM This review focuses on general practice -based health checks and their effects on both surrogate and final outcomes .