Routine measurement of cardiometabolic disease risk factors in primary care in England before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A population based cohort study

Frederick K. Ho, Caroline Dale, Mehrdad A. Mizani, Thomas Bolton, Ewan R. Pearson, Jonathan Valabhji, Christian Delles, Paul Welsh, Shinya Nakada, Daniel Mackay, Jill P. Pell, Chris Tomlinson, Steffen E. Petersen, Benjamin Bray, Mark Ashworth, Kazem Rahimi, Mamas Mamas, Julian Halcox, Cathie Sudlow, Reecha Sofat, Naveed Sattar, on behalf of the CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT Consortium

Project description

The COVID-19 pandemic reduced incident prescriptions for preventative cardiovascular disease (CVD) medicines, which could in part be related to reduced risk factor measurements. We examined to what extent the number of measurements of cardiometabolic risk factors (e.g., blood pressure, cholesterol, HbA1c) were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether these have recovered to expected levels.

How to cite this work

Ho FK, Dale C, Mizani MA, Bolton T, Pearson ER, Valabhji J, et al. (2024) Routine measurement of cardiometabolic disease risk factors in primary care in England before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A population based cohort study. PLoS Med 21(11): e1004485. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004485

Contents

• View the analysis code used in NHS England's SDE for England
• View the phenotyping algorithms and codelists used in NHS England's SDE for England

Project approval

This is a sub-project of project CCU008 approved by the CVD-COVID-UK / COVID-IMPACT Approvals & Oversight Board (sub-project: CCU008_01).

License

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