Motivating patients to make a diet and lifestyle changes


While the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, including diet modifications, stopping smoking, weight management and regular exercise for maintaining optimal LDL-cholesterol levels and reducing CVD risk are clear it can be hard to motivate patients to undertake :
these changes. The ESC/EAS guidelines highlight a few key steps that are crucial to influence any behavior change1. These include
Using the JBS “HearthAge” risk calculator could be helpful to make your patient aware of his/her current estimated heart age and especially to motivate him/her, showing the benefits that may be achieved by sustained, long-term reduction of CVD risk factors through diet and lifestyle changes.