Patients
DM, CAD, hypertension
DISEASE, HYPERTENSION, DISEASES, DIABETES (DM), CAD, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
The study population consisted of adult residents (age ≥18 years) who were living in the municipality of Siilinjärvi and had hypertension (HA), coronary artery disease (CAD) or diabetes (DM). The patients were registered in the electronic patient records in the Siilinjärvi Health Center which provided the public primary health care services in the municipality. The patients were recruited from patients who had a follow-up visit due to their disease between February 2017 and March 2018. The disease groups were organized according to the degree of severity of the disease so that the HA patients had only HA, CAD patients could have also had HA and DM patients could have had all three diseases. In addition to these diseases, patients could have had other diseases. Of the DM patients, 58 had CAD (24%) and 193 (80%) had HA. The baseline results and the first follow-up results have been presented in more detail in our previous articles [Of the 800 informed patients, 622 patients agreed to participate, but 17 cancelled their participation afterwards. Of the 605 participants, 587 patients completed all the data needed for this analysis. The flow of the study is presented in Flow diagram of the study.