Do healthy lifestyle changes reduce CRP concentration in patients with stable cardiovascular disease?
Healthy lifestyle changes, including smoking cessation, increased physical activity, and weight loss, are associated with decreased systemic inflammation in patients with stable cardiovascular disease.
Smoking cessation, increase in physical activity, and weight loss are related to a decrease in CRP concentration in patients with stable cardiovascular disease. Patients with the highest summary lifestyle improvement score have the most decrease in CRP concentration. These results may indicate that healthy lifestyle changes contribute to lowering systemic inflammation, potentially leading to a lower cardiovascular risk in patients with established cardiovascular disease.
Klooster et al. (Mon,) studied this question.