Poor maintenance of electronic health records may contribute to the low reported numbers of lifestyle interventions offered to individuals with high BP, high cholesterol or obesity in England, researchers reported.
“As a starting point, improvements in formal recording of lifestyle interventions in routine medical records are needed,” Julia M. Lemp, MSc, of the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Germany, said in a press release.
In the retrospective cohort study, Lemp and colleagues analyzed 770,711 adults newly diagnosed with hypertension, hyperlipidemia or obesity from 2010 to