[Role of non-pharmacological treatment in the prevention of atherosclerosis].
Atherosclerosis is a multifactorial lesion, and any attempt to prevent or reduce its development must take into account the different known factors of the disease. Each of these factors (dyslipidemia, high blood pressure, tobacco smoking, diabetes, excess weight) requires particular measures among which non-pharmacological therapy always plays an important part irrespective of the risk factors involved. Until recent years, there was widespread doubt about the need to modify life style, diet and physical activity to prevent ischemic diseases. From the evidence which now begins to accumulate, mainly due to epidemiology, a number of measures, with or without drugs, may be recommended. The criteria required to select the subjects concerned by such measures remain to be defined.
D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D005082:Physical Exertion; D012907:Smoking
Place du traitement non pharmacologique dans la prévention de l'athérosclérose.