Trial reportJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2014
A naturopathic approach to the prevention of cardiovascular disease: cost-effectiveness analysis of a pragmatic multi-worksite randomized clinical trial.
Trial report in Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It reports registered trial NCT00718796. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Naturopathic Treatment for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Economic and productivity outcomes of workplace health programmes incorporating blood-based laboratory screening: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2026Pooled it
- General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
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- Naturopathy as a Model of Prevention-Oriented, Patient-Centered Primary Care: A Disruptive Innovation in Health Care.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
- A Hierarchy of Healing: Origins of the Therapeutic Order and Implications for Research.Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.) · 2019Article
- Whole Systems Research Methods in Health Care: A Scoping Review.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: How Integrative Medicine Fits.American journal of preventive medicine · 2015Article
- Institute for Integrative Health in $1-Million Grant to Explore Nature's Effect on Wounded Warriors … plus more.Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.) · 2014Article
- The Bell Tolls for Homeopathy: Time for Change in the Training and Practice of North American Naturopathic Physicians.Journal of evidence-based integrative medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the cost-effectiveness of a worksite-based naturopathic (individualized lifestyle counseling and nutritional medicine) approach to primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
methodsEconomic evaluation alongside a pragmatic, multi-worksite, randomized controlled trial comparing enhanced usual care (EUC; usual care plus biometric screening) to the addition of a naturopathic approach to CVD prevention (NC+EUC).
resultsAfter 1 year, NC+EUC resulted in a net decrease of 3.3 (confidence interval: 1.7 to 4.8) percentage points in 10-year CVD event risk (number needed to treat = 30). These risk reductions came with average net study-year savings of $1138 in societal costs and $1187 in employer costs. There was no change in quality-adjusted life years across the study year.
conclusionsA naturopathic approach to CVD primary prevention significantly reduced CVD risk over usual care plus biometric screening and reduced costs to society and employers in this multi-worksite-based study. Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00718796.
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