title: Lifestyle change and cardiovascular disease. Principles and practice.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Sydney University.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oldenburg
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Graham-Clarke
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gomel
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005194:Family Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style