Prescription of Lipid-Lowering and Antihypertensive Drugs Following Pictorial Information About Subclinical Atherosclerosis: A Secondary Outcome of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Preventive drugs are often underused. Carotid intima-media thickness and carotid plaques are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), and their detection could possibly improve estimation of the likelihood of CVD and prescription of preventive drugs.

Objective

To evaluate whether pictorial information on participants' asymptomatic atherosclerosis based on carotid ultrasonographic examinations to participants and their physicians had an effect on prescribing of lipid-lowering or antihypertensive drugs during the following 465 days.

Design, setting, and participants

Visualization of Asymptomatic Atherosclerotic Disease for Optimum Cardiovascular Prevention is a pragmatic randomized clinical trial nested within the Västerbotten Intervention Program, a CVD

SUBMITTER: Sjolander M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8377571 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature