Lifestyle
Non-Pharmacological Interventions
Healthy lifestyle, diet linked to longer survival for men with prostate cancer
Healthy lifestyle and dietary behaviors appeared associated with reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer, according to results of a prospective cohort study.
Lifestyle changes plus drug therapy inferior to catheter ablation in AF, obesity
CHICAGO — For patients with atrial fibrillation and obesity, lifestyle modification plus antiarrhythmic drug therapy conferred various benefits but was inferior to catheter ablation for preventing recurrent AF, researchers reported.
Non-Pharmacologic Therapies
Lifestyle and Blood Pressure
Lifestyle Factors
VIDEO: Lifestyle modifications must be ‘personalized to the patient’ in GERD management
WASHINGTON — In a Healio video exclusive, Carolyn Newberry, MD, discusses the importance of “personalized” lifestyle modifications, such as identifying dietary triggers and being mindful of meal-timing, for the management of GERD.
Benefits from heart-healthy lifestyle may be related to lowering biological age
Adherence to a heart-healthy lifestyle confers cardiovascular health benefits, and part of the reason may be due to the effect on biological age, researchers reported.
VIDEO: Barriers to care persist amid increasing recognition of obesity as chronic disease
In this video, Katherine Saunders, MD, DABOM, discusses how obesity awareness has evolved since obesity was recognized as a disease in 2013.
Lifestyle intervention had little impact on eGFR slope in patients with type 2 diabetes
Intensive lifestyle intervention did not significantly change eGFR slope during 10 years in patients with type 2 diabetes and preserved kidney function, researchers found in a study.