Creating a pro-active health care system to combat chronic diseases in Sri Lanka: the central role of preventive medicine and healthy lifestyle behaviors
| Autor: | Ross Arena, Andrew P. Hills, Carukshi Arambepola, Pekka Puska, R P Palitha Karunapema, Michael Sagner, Amy McNeil, G N V Brahmam, H. Janaka de Silva, Chandrika N Wijeyaratne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public health Incidence (epidemiology) Psychological intervention Alternative medicine General Medicine 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology medicine.disease Obesity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Diabetes mellitus Health care Internal Medicine Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Preventive healthcare |
| Zdroj: | Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy. 14:1107-1117 |
| ISSN: | 1744-8344 1477-9072 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14779072.2016.1227703 |
| Popis: | Introduction: The current burden and future escalating threat of chronic diseases, constitutes the major global public health challenge. In Sri Lanka, cardiovascular diseases account for the majority of annual deaths. Data from Sri Lanka also indicate a high incidence and prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetes; 1 in 5 adults have elevated blood sugar in Sri Lanka. It is well established that chronic diseases share four primary behavioral risk factors: 1) tobacco use; 2) unhealthy diet; 3) physical inactivity; and 4) harmful use of alcohol.Areas covered: Evidence has convincingly shown that replacing these behavioral risk factors with the converse, healthy lifestyle characteristics, decrease the risk of poor outcomes associated with chronic disease by 60 to 80%. In essence, prevention or reversal of these behavioral risk factors with effective healthy lifestyle programing and interventions is the solution to the current chronic disease crisis.Expert commentary: Healthy lifestyle is medicine with g... |
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