Cardiology and lifestyle medicine Article

Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2023.04.004 Web of Science: 001012317700001

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  • Rozanski A, Blumenthal JA, Hinderliter AL, Cole S, Lavie CJ

Abstract

  • Poor lifestyle habits, such as physical inactivity and poor diets, are highly prevalent within society and even more so among patients with chronic disease. The need to stem poor lifestyle habits has led to the development of a new field of Lifestyle Medicine, whose mission is to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic diseases through life-style interventions. Three fields within Cardiology relate to this mission: Cardiac Rehabilitation, Preventive Car-diology, and Behavioral Cardiology. Each of these three fields have contributed substantially to the reduction of cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. The historic contributions of these three cardiac fields are reviewed as well as the challenges each of these fields has faced in optimizing the application of lifestyle med-icine practices. A shared agenda between Cardiology and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine could further the utilization of behavioral interventions. This review suggests seven steps that could be shared by these orga-nizations and other medical societies. First, there is a need to develop and promulgate the assessment of lifestyle factors as "vital signs" during patient visits. Second, developing a strong partnership between the fields of Cardi-ology and Physiatry could improve important aspects of cardiac care, including a potential redesign of cardiac stress testing. Third, behavioral evaluations should be optimized at patients' entree points into medical care since these may be considered "windows of opportunity". Fourth, there is a need to broaden cardiac rehabilita-tion into inexpensive programs and make this program eligible for patients with risk factors but no known CVD. Fifth, lifestyle medicine education should be integrated into the core competencies for relevant specialties. Sixth, there is a need for inter-societal advocacy to promote lifestyle medicine practices. Seventh, the well-being effects of healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as their impact on one's sense of vitality, should be emphasized.& COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Publication date

  • 2023

Published in

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0033-0620

Number of pages

  • 10

Start page

  • 4

End page

  • 13

Volume

  • 77