Relationship of Annual Health Checkups with the Subject's Subsequent Behavior of Cardiovascular Risk Management in a Real-World Setting in Japan: A Retrospective Cohort Study on Changes in Antihypertensive Drug Prescription and Blood Pressure from 2015 to 2017.

Untreated HT for years increases the risk of CV events. These results suggest that current health-checkup and guidance programs are inadequately effective for behavioral change. Further practices for committing to lifestyle modifications and seeking medical advice based on their health-checkup results need to be undertaken to improve health behavior.