MedPage Today (6/12, Lou) reported, “Behavioral counseling and multidisciplinary care coordination together helped lower cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in people with serious mental illness,” investigators concluded.
Healio (6/12, Dobkowski) reported that “in the IDEAL trial…researchers analyzed data from 269 patients…who attended outpatient psychiatric rehabilitation programs and clinics and had dyslipidemia (n = 175), hypertension (n = 142), diabetes (n = 93), overweight/obesity (n = 242) and/or were current tobacco smokers (n = 138).” Patients were randomized to “the intervention (n = 132; mean age, 49 years; 47% men) or control (n = 137; mean age, 49 years; 48% men).” The study revealed that patients who had the intervention ended up having “a net percentage reduction of 12.7% for the 10-year global Framingham Risk Score.” The findings were published online in JAMA Network Open.
Related Links:
— “Care Coordination Intervention Cuts Heart Risk Among the Mentally Ill, ” Nicole Lou, MedPage Today, June 15, 2020