Healthy Eating Healthy Heart
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Comprehensive dietary advice to reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and help prevent further CVD clinical events.
Classification: HP (Health Professional)
Advice requires some explanation from a Health Professional who has basic nutrition knowledge to enable correct implementation.
To improve the target group's knowledge and understanding of the main dietary factors for primary and secondary prevention of CVD.
The target group will:
- understand the common risk factors of CVD
- understand how to make dietary changes (choose healthier food choices) to decrease CVD risk/further CVD events and improve overall health
- know what a Mediterranean diet is, how to have a Mediterranean diet and be more aware of the benefits
- know the different types and sources of fat in the diet and their effect on cardiovascular health
- know the benefits of fibre and how to include fibre in the diet
- know the benefits of reducing salt and alcohol intake
- understand food labels.
- SIGN 149 Risk estimation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease. 2017.
- SIGN 150 Cardiac rehabilitation. 2017.
- SIGN 151 Management of stable angina. 2018.
- NICE Clinical Guideline (CG181). Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment and reduction, including lipid modification. 2014.
- NICE Guideline (NG136). Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management. 2019.
- NICE Clinical Guideline (CG172). Myocardial Infarction: cardiac rehabilitation and prevention of further cardiovascular disease. 2013.
- NICE Pathway. Cardiovascular disease prevention overview: lifestyle changes for prevention cardiovascular disease.
- Joint British Societies’ consensus recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (JBS3). 2014.
- SACN Report: Saturated fats and health. 2019.
- Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2018.
- Prospective association of the Mediterranean diet with cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality and its population impact in a non-Mediterranean population: the EPIC-Norfolk study. BMC Medicine. 2016.
- Butler T, et al (2020). Optimum nutritional strategies for cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation (BACPR). Heart.106:724–731.
- Cochrane Review: Mediterranean-style diet for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. 2019.
- Cochrane Review: Polyunsaturated fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. 2018.
- Cochrane Review: Omega-6 fats for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. 2018.
- Cochrane Review: Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. 2018.
- Cochrane Review: Dietary fibre for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. 2016.
- Cochrane Review: Exercise for people with high cardiovascular risk. 2014.
- Cochrane Review: Nut consumption for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. 2015.
- Cochrane Review: Reduction in saturated fat intake for cardiovascular disease. 2015.
- UK Chief Medical Officers’ Low Risk Drinking Guidelines. 2016.
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