{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]],"date-time":"2026-08-02T11:45:03Z","timestamp":1785671103523,"version":"3.56.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]],"date-time":"2026-08-02T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1785628800000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]],"date-time":"2026-08-02T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1785628800000},"content-version":"am","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"}],"funder":[{"name":"Shizuoka Prefecture","award":["Nothing"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["Nothing"]}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["link.springer.com"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Health Popul Nutr"],"abstract":"Abstract<\/jats:title>\n \n Background<\/jats:title>\n Dyslipidaemia is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; however, the optimal frequency of medical visits remains unclear.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n To examine whether medical visit frequency is associated with the incidence of cardiac events, cerebrovascular events, and mortality among patients initiating lipid-lowering therapy.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from the Shizuoka Kokuho Database between April 1, 2012, and September 30, 2021. Patients initiating lipid-lowering therapy were classified into high-frequency (\u2265\u200922 visits in 2 years) and low-frequency (8\u201312 visits in 2 years) groups. After 1:3 propensity score matching and exclusion of patients with events within 2 years, 1,435 patients in the low-frequency group and 4,412 in the high-frequency group were analysed.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n Over a mean follow-up of 5.3 years, composite outcomes occurred in 5.6% of both groups (hazard ratio [HR] 1.08; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.84\u20131.38;\n p<\/jats:italic>\n \u2009=\u20090.571). No significant differences were observed for cardiac events (HR 1.13; 95% CI 0.83\u20131.54), cerebrovascular events (HR 1.13; 95% CI 0.67\u20131.90), or mortality (HR 0.94; 95% CI 0.60\u20131.48).\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n Less frequent visits were not associated with increased risks of cardiovascular events or mortality. Extending visit intervals may therefore be a reasonable option for selected stable patients receiving lipid-lowering therapy for primary prevention.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s41043-026-01408-5","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]],"date-time":"2026-08-02T11:24:05Z","timestamp":1785669845000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Association of medical visit frequency with cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with dyslipidaemia: a cohort study using a Japanese claims database"],"prefix":"10.1186","author":[{"given":"Taku","family":"Matsunaga","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4876-446X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eiji","family":"Nakatani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yasuto","family":"Sato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hideaki","family":"Kaneda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hiromitsu","family":"Ohno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Akira","family":"Sugawara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]]},"container-title":["Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1186\/s41043-026-01408-5","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]],"date-time":"2026-08-02T11:24:06Z","timestamp":1785669846000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1186\/s41043-026-01408-5"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]]},"references-count":0,"alternative-id":["1408"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s41043-026-01408-5","relation":{},"ISSN":["2072-1315"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2072-1315","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]]},"assertion":[{"value":"4 April 2026","order":1,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"7 July 2026","order":2,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"2 August 2026","order":3,"name":"first_online","label":"First Online","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Graduate School of Public Health, Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health, Japan (SGUPH_2021_001_074\u2009\u2212\u20092).","order":1,"name":"Ethics","label":"Ethics approval","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Declarations"}},{"value":"The authors declare no competing interests.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","label":"Competing interests","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Declarations"}}]}}