Changes in Blood Lipid Levels After a Digitally Enabled Cardiometabolic Preventive Health Program:Pre-Post Study in an Adult Dutch General Population Cohort
Background: Despite widespread education, many individuals fail to follow basic health behaviors such as consuming a healthy diet and exercising. Positive changes in lifestyle habits are associated with improvements in multiple cardiometabolic health risk factors, including lipid levels. Digital lifestyle interventions have been suggested as a viable complement or potential alternative to conventional health behavior change strategies. However, the benefit of digital preventive interventions for lipid levels in a preventive health context remains unclear. Objective: This observational study ai... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Forte , J C , Gannamani , R , Folkertsma , P , Kumaraswamy , S , Mount , S , Van Dam , S & Hoogsteen , J 2022 , ' Changes in Blood Lipid Levels After a Digitally Enabled Cardiometabolic Preventive Health Program : Pre-Post Study in an Adult Dutch General Population Cohort ' , JMIR cardio , vol. 6 , no. 1 , e34946 . https://doi.org/10.2196/34946 |
Schlagwörter: | cholesterol / digital health / hypercholesterolemia / lifestyle intervention / prevention |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26672129 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/eff487f8-c0da-4c61-abb5-5c731b455f01 |
Background: Despite widespread education, many individuals fail to follow basic health behaviors such as consuming a healthy diet and exercising. Positive changes in lifestyle habits are associated with improvements in multiple cardiometabolic health risk factors, including lipid levels. Digital lifestyle interventions have been suggested as a viable complement or potential alternative to conventional health behavior change strategies. However, the benefit of digital preventive interventions for lipid levels in a preventive health context remains unclear. Objective: This observational study aimed to determine how the levels of lipids, namely total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides, changed over time in a Dutch general population cohort undergoing a digital preventive health program. Moreover, we looked to establish associations between lifestyle factors at baseline and lipid levels. Methods: We included 348 adults from the Dutch general population who underwent a digitally enabled preventive health program at Ancora Health between January 2020 and October 2021. Upon enrollment, participants underwent a baseline assessment involving a comprehensive lifestyle questionnaire, a blood biochemistry panel, physical measurements, and cardiopulmonary fitness measurements. Thereafter, users underwent a lifestyle coaching program and could access the digital application to register and track health behaviors, weight, and anthropometric data at any time. Lipid levels were categorized as normal, elevated, high, and clinical dyslipidemia according to accepted international standards. If at least one lipid marker was high or HDL was low, participants received specific coaching and advice for cardiometabolic health. We retrospectively analyzed the mean and percentage changes in lipid markers in users who were remeasured after a cardiometabolic health-focused intervention, and studied the association between baseline user ...