A consultation-based method is equal to SCORE and an extensive laboratory-based method in predicting risk of future cardiovascular disease.

Background: As cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most common causes of mortality worldwide, much interest has been focused on reliable methods to predict cardiovascular risk.

Design: A cross-sectional, population-based screening study with 17-year follow-up in Southern Sweden.

Methods: We compared a non-laboratory, consultation-based risk assessment method comprising age, sex, present smoking, prevalent diabetes or hypertension at baseline, blood pressure (systolic > or =140 or diastolic > or =90), waist/height ratio and family history of CVD to Systemic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) and a third model including several laboratory analyses, respectively, in predicting CVD risk.

Predictors of successful, self-reported lifestyle changes in a defined middle-aged population: the Soderakra Cardiovascular Risk Factor Study, Sweden.

Aims: It is well established that the main cause of the development of cardiovascular disease can be found in unhealthy lifestyle habits. In our study, we wanted to explore the long-term predictors of self-reported lifestyle changes in a middle-aged population after screening for cardiovascular risk factors 10 years earlier.

Methods: We conducted a 10-year follow-up telephone interview on self-reported lifestyle changes in a rural population in south-eastern Sweden, after a cardiovascular screening programme.

Sex differences in risk factor control of treated hypertensives: a national primary healthcare-based study in Sweden.

Background: To evaluate potential sex differences, this study aimed to investigate blood pressure and lipid control and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease in treated hypertensive (tHT) patients from primary healthcare.

Design And Methods: This cross-sectional survey of tHT patients was carried out between 2002 and 2005 by 264 primary care physicians from Sweden who consecutively recruited 6537 tHT patients (48% men and 52% women) from medical records.

Results: tHT men more often reached the treatment goal for systolic/diastolic blood pressure, less than 140/90 mmHg, than tHT women (30 vs.

Hypertensive smokers have a worse cardiovascular risk profile than non-smokers in spite of treatment--a national study in Sweden.

Smoking is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Studies have indicated that smoking may outweigh the benefit of blood pressure (BP) control. Our aim was to compare cardiovascular risk factors in smokers vs non-smokers from a national sample of treated hypertensives.

Blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors among treated hypertensives in Swedish primary health care.

Objective: To evaluate antihypertensive treatment and other cardiovascular risk factors in primary health care.

Design: Cross-sectional survey of consecutive patients with treated hypertension in 1999.

Setting: 17 primary care centres in Sweden.