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Lifestyle modification interventions, such as the 5A's and motivational interviewing, facilitate patient behavior change to reduce cardiovascular risk.
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This commentary emphasizes the role of provider counseling and research-based interventions like motivational interviewing in facilitating lifestyle modifications for cardiovascular risk reduction.
This commentary builds on the unhealthy lifestyle habits, population health, risk factors as harbingers of cardiovascular disease, current provider counseling practices, assessing patient readiness to change, and research-based interventions to facilitate behavior change (eg, the 5A's, motivational interviewing, and overcoming inertia with downscaled goals).
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Franklin et al. (2020) studied this question. Lifestyle modification interventions, such as the 5A's and motivational interviewing, facilitate patient behavior change to reduce cardiovascular risk.
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