Lifestyle change and cardiovascular disease. Principles and practice.
Changes in patients' lifestyles can be approached in a practical fashion by working through the relevant 'stages of change'. Helping patients to change their lifestyles does not have to be a very time-consuming process for the clinician, but it does require planning, and attention to those factors that are important at each stage of the process. Although this paper has a focus on lifestyle change for the reduction of CVD risk factors, the same principles can apply to lifestyle change and disease prevention for other disorders.
Oldenburg
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Department of Public Health, Sydney University.
Owen
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Graham-Clarke
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Gomel
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D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005194:Family Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style