Newswise — NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana. – A new article published in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Cardiology points to the need for individualized behavioral counseling to help patients change unhealthy lifestyles to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially for those within socioeconomically or marginalized populations. underprivileged
The paper’s lead author, Carl “Chip” Lavie, MD, said, “While CVD is the leading cause of death in the US across most races and ethnicities, clinicians shouldn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach for lifestyle advice.” Dr. Lavie is the Medical Director of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation at Ochsner Health, and is ranked among the world’s most cited researchers by the Google Scholar citation database and recognized as the world’s top obesity expert by Expertscape.
In “Improving Behavioral Counseling for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease,” Dr. Lavie and coauthors Barry A. Franklin, PhD, and Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, acknowledge that the likelihood that patients will adopt a particular lifestyle it is governed by a myriad of socioeconomic conditions. , attitudes and cultural factors. Furthermore, they point to evidence that interventions designed to favorably modify dietary habits or physical activity practices in one population cohort may be less effective in another.
They proposed a series of evidence-based methods for individualized counseling that clinicians can use to identify patients’ unhealthy lifestyle practices and encourage behavioral transformation.
The authors highlight disparities in health care delivery at many levels, noting that black adults have shorter life expectancies, primarily driven by higher CVD mortality rates. Along with counseling, the authors argue that structural changes in health care and tailored community-based interventions are reasonable approaches to halting or reversing significant disparities in morbidity and mortality within certain population subsets.
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