ABSTRACT
This chapter provides practical strategies for employing these modalities in clinical practice for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Multiple frameworks are available for assessing risk of CVD. Lifestyle strategies can play a significant role in the reduction of risk factors for CVD as well as in prevention and effective treatment of the disease. Physicians can play a particularly powerful role by recommending and monitoring lifestyle-related changes for reduction in the risk of CVD. Health care professionals can be enormously influential in helping patients take positive lifestyle actions to lower their risk of CVD. The evidence supporting lifestyle therapies for reduction of risk of CVD is diverse and powerful. The evidence supporting lifestyle therapies for reduction of risk of CVD is diverse and powerful. Lifestyle strategies are a key component for both the prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases and are recognized as such by virtually every major national, evidence-based guideline in metabolic diseases.
