Prevention: Low adoption of healthy lifestyles

摘要

Less than 5% of patients who have experienced a cardiovascular event subsequently adopt three healthy lifestyle behaviours (smoking cessation, physical acitivy, healthy diet), according to data from the PURE study. This investigation, the first of its kind to be undertaken on such a wide scale, showed poor adherence to lifestyle-based secondary prevention measures among individuals across a range of socioeconomic and cultural strata. The PURE study was conducted in 17 countries and involved 153,996 people.