Software helps patients make healthy lifestyle choices
New risk-assessment software enabling GPs to show patients the impact
of their lifestyle habit and the benefits of potential changes is being
launched across the UK, after successful validation and uptake in GP
surgeries and health centres in Essex.
The Laindon Survival Model, created by Dr Chris Martin, a GP at the
Laindon Health Centre in Essex, is being promoted by Health Enterprise
East (HEE), the NHS Innovation hub for the East of England.
The Laindon Survival Model uses the Framingham risk equations along
with risks of death and disease obtained from UK mortality and health
statistics. Risk factors assessed include: smoking vs non-smoking,
systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, diabetes, left
ventricular hypertrophy, total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein and
age. These factors are then utilised to project the probability of an
individual’s survival over a lifetime.
Source: bjhc&im March 2007
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