Why the study?
Healthy lifestyle is fundamental for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease and other noncommunicable diseases, but investment in primary prevention through lifestyle counseling is needed.
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Design
Scientific statement from the American Heart Association
Requires enhanced lifestyle counseling training now; reinforces primary prevention emphasis in cardiovascular guidelines.
healthy lifestyle is fundamental for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Investment in primary prevention, including modification of health risk behaviors, could result in a 4-fold improvement in health outcomes compared with secondary prevention based on pharmacological treatment.
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Hivert et al. (2016) studied this question. Primary prevention involving health risk behavior modification could yield a 4-fold improvement in health outcomes compared with secondary prevention based on pharmacological treatment.
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