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Percentage of visits which included lifestyle counseling, after stratification for stage of diagnosis, age, patient gender and GP gender |
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| Assessment |
Advice |
Total |
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| Stage of diagnosis |
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| Established hypertension (n = 165) |
32 |
12 |
35 |
| Early phase† (n = 20) |
45 |
25 |
50 |
| Other/unknown (n = 27) |
56 |
37 |
63 |
| P (difference) |
0.04 |
0.003 |
0.01 |
| Age |
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| <65y (n = 92) |
41 |
19 |
44 |
| =>65y (n = 120) |
33 |
15 |
37 |
| P (difference) |
0.19 |
0.50 |
0.32 |
| Patient gender |
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| Male (n = 71) |
39 |
24 |
42 |
| Female (n = 141) |
35 |
13 |
38 |
| P (difference) |
0.50 |
0.04 |
0.58 |
| GP gender (per visit) |
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| Male (n = 157) |
38 |
17 |
41 |
| Female (n = 55) |
33 |
14 |
36 |
| P (difference) |
0.52 |
0.65 |
0.57 |
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† Elevated blood pressure in one or more visits but diagnosis hypertension not (yet) established. | |||
Milder et al. BMC Family Practice 2008 9:58 doi:10.1186/1471-2296-9-58 |
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