Trial reportJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2012
Lifestyle educational program strongly increases compliance to nonpharmacologic intervention in hypertensive patients: a 2-year follow-up study.
Trial report in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Impact of fatty diets on blood pressure: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Role of Health Care Professionals in the Success of Blood Pressure Control Interventions in Patients With Hypertension: A Meta-Analysis.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2024Pooled it
- Reducing salt intake: a systematic review and meta-analysis of behavior change interventions in adults.Nutrition reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of calcium plus vitamin D supplementation on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of human hypertension · 2017Pooled it
- Review of behaviour change interventions to reduce population salt intake.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Pooled it
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- Effect of lifestyle interventions on glucose regulation among adults without impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Diabetes research and clinical practice · 2017Pooled it
- Multi-pronged biobehavioural intervention strategies for prevention and control of hypertension: A systematic review of education-based community trials.SAGE open medicine · 2026Review
- Implementation of non-pharmacological interventions for the treatment of hypertension in primary care: a narrative review of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, barriers, and facilitators.BMC primary care · 2022Review
- Outcomes of a multi-community hypertension implementation study: the American Heart Association's Check. Change. Control. program.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2017Article
- The Effect of Theory Based Nutritional Education on Fat Intake, Weight and Blood Lipids.Electronic physician · 2016Article
- Lifestyle intervention and hypertension.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2013Article
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Abstract
The authors investigated the efficacy of a lifestyle educational program, organized in small group meetings, in improving the outcome of a nonpharmacologic intervention. One hundred and eighty-eight hypertensive patients with stable blood pressure (BP) levels and drug therapy in the previous 6 months were randomly divided into educational care (EC) and usual care (UC) groups. They were followed at 3-month intervals up to 2 years. In addition to the visits in an outpatient clinic, patients in the EC program participated in small group meetings in order to improve their knowledge of the disease and reinforce their motivation for treatment. At baseline, EC and UC groups were similar for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP) levels, and pharmacologic treatment. Patients in the EC group had significantly reduced total energy, total and saturated fats, and sodium intake. Physical activity was significantly increased in the EC group as well. At the end of the 1-year follow-up, BMI (P<.001), visceral fat (P<.001), and BP (P<.001) were significantly lower in the EC group compared with the UC group. Pharmacologic treatment during the study was similar for all classes of drugs apart from diuretics whose dose was higher in the UC group at the end of the study.
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