Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
ReviewAssociations between the built environment and physical activity in children, adults and older people: A narrative review of reviews.
Physical activity is essential for promoting public health, and it is affected by the built environment at population level. Extensive evidence exists on the associations between the built environment and physical activity, but results are inconclusive for different age groups. Therefore, we conducted a narrative review summarizing existing reviews on the associations between the built environment and physical activity for children, adults and older people and synthesized their findings. ⋯ Our findings provide valuable information on creating health-promoting urban environments for practitioners. Further research is needed to understand which characteristics make urban environments age friendly for physical activity. Special attention should be paid to less explored promising characteristics such as street lighting and the quality of green spaces.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
ReviewInterventions and contextual factors to improve retention in care for patients with hypertension in primary care: Hermeneutic systematic review.
Regular engagement over time in hypertension care, or retention, is a crucial but understudied step in optimizing patient outcomes. This systematic review leverages a hermeneutic methodology to identify, evaluate, and quantify the effects of interventions and contextual factors for improving retention for patients with hypertension. ⋯ PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021291368. Available at: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=291368.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
The importance of a healthy lifestyle despite chronic pain: Prospective cohort with 11-year register follow-up.
The purpose of the study was to investigate to which extent a healthy lifestyle in female healthcare workers with chronic pain contributes to reducing the risk of disability pension. We conducted a prospective cohort study with an 11-year registry follow-up. Overall, 2386 Danish female healthcare workers with chronic pain completed a questionnaire about work and lifestyle (leisure-time physical activity, smoking, and body mass index (BMI)). ⋯ BMI was not an influential factor. In female healthcare workers with chronic pain, at least moderate levels of physical activity is a protective factor for disability pension. Effective promotion strategies should be designed for both workplace and non-workplace settings.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
Association between lipid accumulation products and osteoarthritis among adults in the United States: A cross-sectional study, NHANES 2017-2020.
Using cross-sectional data from the 2017-2020 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for American, the aim of this research is to investigate the potential association between Lipid Accumulation Products (LAP) and the risk of osteoarthritis (OA). ⋯ Our findings revealed that LAP was an independent risk factor for OA when it was <120.00 cm × mmol/L. The LAP index may serve as a valuable method for predicting and diagnosed OA. To validate our results, further large-scale prospective research are required.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
Impaired kidney function and the risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease among Chinese hypertensive adults: Using three different equations to estimate the glomerular filtration rate.
We aimed to seek accurate assessments of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in a Chinese hypertensive population to identify individuals at high risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression. Then, the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause death due to kidney injury were further investigated under appropriate GFR-estimation equations. ⋯ The MDRD equation seems to be more suitable for screening CKD progression in Chinese hypertensive populations, targeting potential risk factors for effective prevention to reduce renal impairment so as to further limit CVD morbidity and mortality.