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Adherence to lifestyle advice

A common advice for diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and hyperlipidaemia is to change lifestyle. The advice can be for example to reduce the amount of fat, sugar and salt in the food, lose weight, exercise daily, reduce alcohol consumption and stop smoking. An important question is if there are differences in adherence to lifestyle advice depending on if the patient is treated with medication or not.

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SBU Enquiry Service

Consists of structured literature searches to highlight studies that can address questions received by the SBU Enquiry Service from Swedish healthcare or social service providers. We assess the risk of bias in systematic reviews and when needed also quality and transferability of results in health economic studies. Relevant references are compiled by an SBU staff member, in consultation with an external expert when needed.

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Regarding diabetes, high blood pressure and hyperlipidaemia: Are there differences in adherence to lifestyle advice depending on if the patient is treated with medication or not?

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