A health dialogue intervention reduces cardiovascular risk factor levels: a population based randomised controlled trial in Swedish primary care setting with 1-year follow-up

Table 3 Changes in CVD-related factors at one year follow-up (2012) among participants with elevated risk at baseline

	Intervention			Control			Between group differences		Cohen’s d
Continuous variables	Mean (SD)	p-value	n=	Mean (SD)	p-value	n=	Mean (95% CI)	p-value
Weight (kg)	- 1.6 (4.1)	.004	59	- 0.1 (3.8)	.817	62	1.49 (0.7, 2.9)	.039	.38
BMI (kg/m²)	- .62 (1.44)	.002	59	- 0.10 (1.5)	.585	62	.52 (0.0, 1.0)	.052
WC (cm)	- 2.82 (5.5)	≤ .001	99	- 0.1 (4.7)	.892	89	2.75 (1.3, 4.2)	≤ .001	.54
WHR	- .025 (0.1)	≤ .001	99	- 0.00 (0.0)	.938	89	.03 (0.0, 0.0)	≤ .001	.52
S-cholesterol	- .29 (1.0)	.015	72	- 0.16 (1.0)	.109	95	.13 (−0.2, 0.4)	.398
SBP	7.04 (14.1)	≤ .001	52	−7.19 (17.6)	.005	52	.15 (−6.4, 6.0)	.961
Alcohol consumption	- 4.7 (22.1)	.090	67	- 7.7 (19.9)	≤ .001	89	3.05 (−9.7, 3.6)	.367
Categorical variables	%			%
Unfavourable diet	−34.4	≤ .001	64	−24.3	≤ .001	70
Low physical activity	−13.3	≤ .001	120	−12.5	≤ .001	128

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