Who will deliver comprehensive healthy lifestyle interventions to combat non-communicable disease? Introducing the healthy lifestyle practitioner discipline
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2016
Citazione:
Who will deliver comprehensive healthy lifestyle interventions to combat non-communicable disease? Introducing the healthy lifestyle practitioner discipline / R. Arena, C. Lavie, M. Hivert, M. Williams, P. Briggs, M. Guazzi. - In: EXPERT REVIEW OF CARDIOVASCULAR THERAPY. - ISSN 1477-9072. - 14:1(2016 Jan), pp. 15-22. [10.1586/14779072.2016.1107477]
Abstract:
Unhealthy lifestyle characteristics (i.e., physical inactivity, excess body mass, poor diet, and smoking) as well as associated poor health metrics (i.e., dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and hypertension) are the primary reasons for the current non-communicable disease crisis. Compared to those with the poorest of lifestyles and associated health metrics, any movement toward improving lifestyle and associated health metrics improves health outcomes. To address the non-communicable disease crisis we must: 1) acknowledge that healthy lifestyle (HL) interventions are a potent medicine; and 2) move toward a healthcare system that embraces primordial as much as, if not more than, secondary prevention with a heavy focus on HL medicine. This article introduces the Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner, focused on training health professionals to deliver HL medicine.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Obesity; diabetes; dyslipidemia; exercise; healthy diet; hypertension; physical inactivity; poor nutrition; smoking cessation; tobacco; weight loss
Elenco autori:
R. Arena, C. Lavie, M. Hivert, M. Williams, P. Briggs, M. Guazzi
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