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Anna-Lotta Irewall1, Joachim Ögren2, Lisa Bergström2
1Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Östersund, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. anna-lotta.irewall@umu.se.
Background:
The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of two forms of secondary preventive follow-up on the association between education level and levels of blood pressure (BP) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) after stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA).
Methods:
We included a population-based cohort of 771 stroke and TIA patients randomly assigned (1:1) to secondary preventive follow-up within primary health care (control) or nurse-led, telephone-based follow-up (intervention) between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2013, as part of the NAILED (nurse-based age-independent intervention to limit evolution of disease) stroke risk factor trial. We compared BP and LDL-C levels 12 months after hospital discharge in relation to education level (low, ≤10 years; high, >10 years) separately for the intervention and control groups.
Results:
Among controls, systolic BP (SBP) decreased only among the highly educated (-2.5 mm Hg, 95% confidence interval (CI) -0.2 to -4.8), whereas LDL-C increased in the low-education group (0.2 mmol/L, 95% CI 0.1 to 0.3). At 12 months, controls with low education not more than 70 years of age had higher SBP than controls of the same age with high education (5.8 mm Hg, 95% CI 1.0 to 10.6). In contrast, SBP in the intervention group decreased similarly regardless of education level, LDL-C decreased among those with low education (-0.3 mmol/L, 95% CI -0.2 to -0.4) and, in the subgroup not more than 70 years old, low-educated participants had lower LDL-C at 12 months than those with high education (0.3 mmol/L, 95% CI 0.1 to 0.5).
Conclusions:
Nurse-led, telephone-based secondary preventive follow-up led to comparable improvements in BP across education groups, while routine follow-up disfavored those with low education.
Trial Registration:
ISRCTN Registry ISRCTN23868518 , June 19, 2012 - Retrospectively registered.
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