To identify participants who had received an NHS Health Check (or its Scottish equivalent), we performed a text search of primary care clinical records, for the following phrases “keep well, health check, check-up, healthy start, healthy lifestyle, diabetes prevent, well man, well woman, wel...
Despite the NHS budget being protected in the most recent spending review, the current modus operandi seems to be trying to preemptively stop people needlessly using their services, i.e. eat healthily to avoid heart disease, diabetes and ugliness. So naturally when I got home and took a closer...
on multiple logistic regression: Fully adjusted for age, sex, sodium intake (>1500 mg/day vs. ≤1500 mg/day), employment status, educational and activity level, hyperlipidemia (presence of high cholesterol and/or triglycerides), and diabetes; Lower MedDiet Score <23; Higher MedDiet Score ≥...