Key result
Shared risk factors unite CVD and cancer, supporting joint prevention through targeted lifestyle modification.
Why the study?
Cardiovascular disease and cancer are leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide with shared lifestyle-related risk factors and biological pathways, but opportunities to apply cardiovascular prevention strategies to cancer prevention require discussion.
Cardiovascular disease and cancer share common lifestyle-related risk factors, suggesting that strategies used to prevent atherosclerotic vascular disease can also be applied to cancer prevention.
Supports integrated lifestyle counseling for dual prevention; leaves open prospective trials to validate joint strategies.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer are leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide and are the major focus of the World Health Organization's joint prevention programs. While, diverse diseases, CVD and cancer, have many similarities. These include common lifestyle-related risk factors and shared environmental, metabolic, cellular, inflammatory, and genetic pathways. In this review, we will discuss the shared lifestyle-related and environmental risk factors central to both diseases and how the strategies commonly used to prevent atherosclerotic vascular disease can be applied to cancer prevention.
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Masoudkabir et al. (2023) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease and cancer. Lifestyle and environmental risk factors was evaluated. Cardiovascular disease and cancer share common lifestyle-related and environmental risk factors, presenting an opportunity for joint prevention strategies through risk factor control and lifestyle modification.
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