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General practitioners play a crucial role in providing ongoing secondary cardiovascular prevention, promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors, and ensuring adherence to medical therapy after cardiac rehabilitation.
General practitioners play a crucial role in the long-term implementation of secondary cardiovascular prevention strategies after patients complete cardiac rehabilitation programs.
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Emphasizes GPs' key position in sustaining secondary prevention post-rehabilitation; leaves open the need for trials assessing clinical outcomes.
This paper will review the current role of general practitioners (GPs) in providing cardiovascular prevention for patients after attendance at a cardiac rehabilitation program. Long-term implementation of preventive strategies is needed for continued impact on reducing risk of cardiovascular events and GPs have a major role in providing ongoing continuing medical care. Awareness of patients' social, cultural and physical circumstances allows the GP to identify individuals' needs for support in engaging in secondary prevention: relevant brief interventions can promote behaviour change in physical activity, diet and smoking habits, as well as promoting mental health and adherence to optimal medical therapy. Collaborative multidisciplinary working with community and hospital services provides best opportunities for timely referral to specialist expertise to maximise patients' well-being.
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Cupples et al. (2016) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease (post-cardiac rehabilitation). General practitioner-led secondary prevention was evaluated. General practitioners play a crucial role in providing ongoing secondary cardiovascular prevention, promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors, and ensuring adherence to medical therapy after cardiac rehabilitation.
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