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Lifestyle Strategies for Risk Factor Reduction, Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
Published in James M. Rippe, Lifestyle Medicine, 2019
James M. Rippe, Theodore J. Angelopoulos
Health care professionals can be enormously influential in helping patients take positive lifestyle actions to lower their risk of CVD. Health care providers’ recommendations to make changes in behavior such as cigarette smoking cessation, weight loss, or improved nutrition have all been demonstrated to play important roles in lowering risk factors for CVD. Numerous studies have shown that the public perceives medical professionals as a reliable and credible source of information concerning health-related behaviors.18–24 Often, however, health care workers underestimate how powerful their role as health counselors can be. For example, less than 50% of smokers report receiving advice to quit from their physician,25 and less than 40% of obese individuals report receiving advice about weight loss. This is unfortunate, since the average adult in the United States visits a physician’s office more than five times per year, and it has been estimated that physicians come in contact with over 75% of adults in the United States in any given year.26 In addition to physicians, nutritionists, nurses with an interest and background in preventive cardiology or diabetes education, and other health care professionals can play critically important roles in counseling patients on positive lifestyle behaviors to lower their risk of CVD.
Intersection of smoking, e-cigarette use, obesity, and metabolic and bariatric surgery: a systematic review of the current state of evidence
Published in Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2021
Nimisha Srikanth, Luyu Xie, Elisa Morales-Marroquin, Ashley Ofori, Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, Sarah E. Messiah
Consistent evidence shows that smoking is associated with short-term and long-term unfavorable health outcomes including increased mortality rates in MBS patients. Evidence evaluating the relationship between combustible cigarette smoking and weight loss is inconclusive. No published study has yet examined the effect of ENDS on the health outcome of MBS patients. Given both obesity and the use of ENDS have become epidemic in the US, there is a need to increase research efforts on the potential health effects of the use of ENDS among MBS patients.