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Among patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis, 82.7% had satisfactory knowledge about the condition, yet 99.3% demonstrated negative healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Observational (n=150)
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Despite having satisfactory knowledge about their condition, nearly all patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis exhibited negative healthy lifestyle behaviors, indicating a significant gap between knowledge and practice.
Background: Atherosclerosis can lead to serious health problems and medical emergencies and need healthy lifestyle. Aim: This study aimed to assess lifestyle for patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis. Research design: Descriptive research design was used to achieve the aim of the current study. Setting: This study was conducted at in the department of cardiac care unit and cardiac clinic at Dar-El Salam Oncology Hospital, Egypt. Subjects: The study included 150 patients who have coronary artery atherosclerosis. Tools: Data were collected by three main tools namely; Interview questionnaire, knowledge Interview questionnaire, and Healthy Heart Score. Results: The result revealed that, 82.7% of the studied patients had satisfactory level of knowledge regarding coronary atherosclerosis, and only 17.3% of them had unsatisfactory level of knowledge regarding coronary atherosclerosis. While clarified that, 99.3%, 89.3% of the studied patients had negative healthy style at total level of healthy behaviours and total level of health status, respectively. And 86.7% of the studied patients had positive healthy style at total level of social aspect and well-being of the studied patients. Also 62% of the studied patients had negative healthy style at total level of physical and mental health of the studied patients. And 64% of the studied patients had positive healthy style at total level of stress management. Conclusion: the study concluded that, more than half of the studied patients had positive healthy style level of life style health behaviour regarding coronary atherosclerosis, and more than one third of them had negative healthy style level of life style health behaviour regarding coronary atherosclerosis. Recommendations: Designing and implementing the continuous systemically educational guidelines for patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis, developing and dissemination of educational guidelines in media such as: social media and mobiles applications to improve lifestyle behaviours among patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis.
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Ahmed et al. (2025) conducted an observational in Coronary artery atherosclerosis (n=150). Lifestyle behaviors and knowledge was evaluated on Level of knowledge regarding coronary atherosclerosis. Among patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis, 82.7% had satisfactory knowledge about the condition, yet 99.3% demonstrated negative healthy lifestyle behaviors.
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