Population-wide therapeutic lifestyle changes are highly effective for cardiovascular disease prevention.
May strengthen preventive cardiology counseling; leaves open causal confirmation from higher-level evidence.
Ischaemic heart disease and stroke are the world's biggest killers.The good news is that 80% of cardiovascular diseases can be prevented with healthy lifestyle habits.The most effective approach to improve this situation is the reduction of risk factors levels.Small positive shifts of risk factors, across a whole population consistently leads to greater reductions in disease burden than the huge investment to the new drugs and devices including invasive procedures.Motivation is a key element of cardiovascular prevention.It means in practice non-smoking, support for nutrition changes, regular and effective physical activities and obesity management mainly.
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