Lifestyle management, encompassing smoking cessation, weight loss, dietary changes, physical activity, and stress management, remains the cornerstone of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease prevention.
Does lifestyle management prevent atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in individuals at risk for or with ASCVD?
This review highlights the evidence-based opportunities and challenges for healthcare professionals to promote healthy lifestyles for the prevention of ASCVD.
Lifestyle management is the cornerstone of both primary and secondary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and the importance of lifestyle management is emphasised by all major guidelines. Despite this, actual implementation of lifestyle management is poor. Lifestyle modification includes smoking cessation, weight loss, dietary change, increasing physical inactivity, and stress management. This review summarises evidence-based opportunities and challenges for healthcare professionals to promote healthy lifestyles at an individual level for the prevention of ASCVD.
Trier et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Lifestyle management was evaluated. Lifestyle management, encompassing smoking cessation, weight loss, dietary changes, physical activity, and stress management, remains the cornerstone of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease prevention.