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CURRENT ATHEROSCLEROSIS REPORTS
Volume 24, Issue 12, Pages 969-980Publisher
CURRENT MEDICINE GROUP
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-022-01068-w
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Healthy dietary pattern; Physical activity; Healthy weight; No tobacco; Quality sleep; Stress management; Cardiovascular health
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The recent rise in cardiovascular disease deaths in the USA has led to interest in identifying and implementing effective strategies to reverse this trend. Healthy lifestyle behaviors are crucial for CVD prevention, and even small changes can lower the risk. However, unhealthy behaviors may attenuate the effects of changing other lifestyle behaviors.
Purpose of Review The recent rise in cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths in the USA has sparked interest in identifying and implementing effective strategies to reverse this trend. Healthy lifestyle behaviors (i.e., healthy diet, regular physical activity, achieve and maintain a healthy weight, avoid tobacco exposure, good quality sleep, avoiding and managing stress) are the cornerstone for CVD prevention. Recent Findings Achieving all of these behaviors significantly benefits heart health; however, even small changes lower CVD risk. Moreover, there is interplay among healthy lifestyle behaviors where changing one may result in concomitant changes in another behavior. In contrast, the presence of one or more unhealthy lifestyle behaviors may attenuate changing another lifestyle behavior(s) (poor diet, inadequate physical activity, overweight/obesity, poor sleep quality, tobacco exposure, and poor stress management). It is important to assess all of these lifestyle behaviors with patients to plan an intervention program that is best positioned for adherence.
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