title: Identifying patients at risk of cardiovascular disease: a pharmacist-managed screening event for union workers and their dependents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a pharmacist-managed health screening as a tool to identify patients who were at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive nonexperimental study.
  
  
  METHODS
  A community pharmacy, a health benefit consulting company, and two local unions of plumbers and electricians in the Quad Cities area (Mid-Mississippi Valley) in fall 2006.
  
  
  METHODS
  Union members and their dependents who received any one of the following pharmacist-managed screening services: systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), total cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
  
  
  METHODS
  Pharmacist-managed CVD risk screening program coordinated by a health benefit consulting company.
  
  
  METHODS
  Risk levels of CVD according to SBP, DBP, total cholesterol, and HDL.
  
  
  RESULTS
  452 patients 20 years of age or older were screened. A total of 137 participants (45.2%) had an SBP of 140 mm Hg or more and 73 (24.1%) a DBP of 90 mm Hg or more. Among patients who checked their total cholesterol or HDL, 81 (24.0%) had high total cholesterol and 55 (16.4%) low HDL.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A pharmacist-managed health screening program was a tool to identify patients at risk of CVD. At-risk individuals could be potential participants in a cardiovascular risk management service.
authors: Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.
authors: Yifei
authors: Y
authors: Liu
authors: Randal P
authors: RP
authors: McDonough
authors: Kara M
authors: KM
authors: Carruthers
authors: William R
authors: WR
authors: Doucette
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D003157:Community Pharmacy Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D050171:Dyslipidemias / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004560:Electricity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D007484:Iowa; D007750:Labor Unions; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration; D008875:Middle Aged; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012498:Sanitary Engineering; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL; D002784:Cholesterol