General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease

LT Krogsbøll, KJ Jørgensen, CG Larsen… - Cochrane Database …, 2012 - cochranelibrary.com
Background General health checks are common elements of health care in some countries.
These aim to detect disease and risk factors for disease with the purpose of reducing …

General health checks in adult primary care: a review

DT Liss, T Uchida, CL Wilkes, A Radakrishnan… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance General health checks, also known asgeneral medical examinations, periodic
health evaluations, checkups, routine visits, orwellness visits, are commonly performed in …

Evaluating the risk of macrovascular events and mortality among people with multiple sclerosis in England

R Palladino, RA Marrie, A Majeed… - JAMA neurology, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance People with multiple sclerosis (MS) are associated with an increased risk of
cardiovascular disease and mortality; however, evidence from population-based studies is …

How much do OECD countries spend on prevention?

M Gmeinder, D Morgan, M Mueller - 2017 - oecd-ilibrary.org
OECD countries face the multiple challenges of rapidly ageing societies with the associated
rise in chronic diseases and the ever-present threat from new or evolving communicable …

Development of a questionnaire to evaluate patients' awareness of cardiovascular disease risk in England's National Health Service Health Check preventive …

M Woringer, JJ Nielsen, L Zibarras, J Evason… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background The National Health Service (NHS) Health Check is a cardiovascular disease
(CVD) risk assessment and management programme in England aiming to increase CVD …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the risk of developing weight-related complications associated with different body mass index categories: a systematic review

AB Taieb, E Roberts, M Luckevich, S Larsen… - Diabetology & Metabolic …, 2022 - Springer
Background Obesity and overweight are major risk factors for several chronic diseases.
There is limited systematic evaluation of risk equations that predict the likelihood of …

Screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: Time for general practice to play its part

T Brett, N Qureshi, S Gidding, GF Watts - Atherosclerosis, 2018 - Elsevier
Fifty per cent of first-degree relatives of index cases with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)
inherit the disorder. Despite cascade screening being the most cost-effective method for …

[HTML][HTML] Interventions in hypertension: systematic review and meta-analysis of natural and quasi-experiments

T Xia, F Zhao, RA Nianogo - Clinical hypertension, 2022 - Springer
Background Hypertension is an urgent public health problem. Consistent summary from
natural and quasi-experiments employed to evaluate interventions that aim at preventing or …

Delivery and impact of the NHS health check in the first 8 years: a systematic review

A Martin, CL Saunders, E Harte, SJ Griffin… - British Journal of …, 2018 - bjgp.org
Background Since 2009, all eligible persons in England have been entitled to an NHS
Health Check. Uncertainty remains about who attends, and the health-related impacts. Aim …

[HTML][HTML] Health checks and cardiovascular risk factor values over six years' follow-up: Matched cohort study using electronic health records in England

S Alageel, MC Gulliford - PLoS medicine, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background The National Health Service (NHS) in England introduced a population-wide
programme for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in 2009, known as NHS Health …