Interventional Study to Decrease Cardiovascular Risk in Women in Primary Health Care in South Croatia

"All participants were exposed to the intervention. The intervention consisted of a 60-minute lecture titled Change of lifestyle and nutrition habits to reduce cardiovascular risk. The lecture was delivered in family medicine offices by four specialists of family medicine individually to the groups of 6-8 participants. The lecture was verbal, harmonized among four family physicians, and contained instructions for changing nutrition habits, smoking habits and instructions for increasing physical activity. At the end of the lecture, each participant received a personally tailored decision aid, which included the list of her risk factors, assessment of the 10-year risk of fatal CVD (based on the data provided by the participants before the lecture), and instructions on what she should do in terms of changing the lifestyle habits."