Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2014
A primary health care community intervention program was offered to the middle-aged female population in a Swedish community aiming at reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Around 30% of women with risk factors took active part in an intervention course program inspiring to lifestyle changes. Analysis showed few background differences between the group of women who participated and who did not participate in the intervention program. Most women with risk factors benefited from lifestyle changes, those with multiple risk factors to as large an extent as those with few risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Also women with risk factors who did not take part in the intervention course program changed their lifestyle habits to some extent.The pedagogics of the intervention program described in this paper are shown to be of value when addressed to middle-aged women with risk factors for cardiovascular disease.