[Risk factors analysis of cardiovascular diseases. Is the Life Style Assessment useful?]

The Norwegian Medical Association's Health Control Handbook (1993) has introduced a lifestyle risk analysis-a paper-based way of assessing risk factors for cardiovascular disease and transferring them into pedagogic risk scores. By using the lifestyle risk analysis in our data based risk profile system LIVDA, we compared and evaluated the two systems through 437 consultations at our Occupational Health Clinic. The lifestyle risk analysis is a pedagogic tool, as compared with the unsystematic clinical information recorded in journals. We found only small differences between the lifestyle risk analysis and LIVDA, except when assessing total cholesterol and physical exercise. Lifestyle risk analysis does not, however, allow categorisation of risk factor values without adjustments, and does not include all relevant risk factors. Further, there are no possibilities of measuring motivation, or for selecting patients for group intervention.