Adult health checks for Indigenous Australians: the first year's experience from the Inala Indigenous Health Service.

Objective: To evaluate the role of the adult health check for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-54 years, in an urban Indigenous primary health care setting.

Design, Setting And Participants: Cross-sectional study of Indigenous patients recruited opportunistically from the Inala Indigenous Health Service between 1 June 2007 and 31 July 2008.

Main Outcome Measures: Newly identified cardiovascular risk factors, investigations ordered and performed, interventions and new diagnoses made.