Unhealthy lifestyles should be targeted by healthcare providers

Healthcare providers should treat unhealthy behaviors as aggressively as they treat high blood pressure, cholesterol and other heart disease risk factors, according to an American Heart Association science advisory published in Circulation. "We're talking about a paradigm shift from only treating biomarkers - physical indicators of a person's risk for heart disease - to helping people change unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy body weight, poor diet quality and lack of physical activity," said Bonnie Spring, Ph.D...

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