Effect of a Customised Lifestyle Medicine Strategy on Lowering Blood Lipid Levels in Indian Physicians

Launched by JUBILEE MISSION MEDICAL COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE · May 15, 2024

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ClinConnect Summary

Lifestyle medicine is a medical specialty that uses evidence based therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to prevent, treat and often reverse chronic conditions using whole food plant-based diet, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress reduction, avoiding risky substances and positive social connections with or without medications.

Epidemiological and interventional studies have shown clearly that a 50 mg/dl reduction in LDL reduces the risk of developing stroke by 20% and a 10 mm Hg reduction in systolic BP reduces the risk of developing MACE by 22% and the risk of...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion Criteria: All willing Indian doctors and their family aged between 18 and 70 years
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Those who have been started on any medication for chronic illnesses unless sufficient period (3 months) is over for stabilization of parameters on those medications.
• • People on insulin, steroids and warfarin.
• • Those who alter their medications during the intervention
• • Those who are unfit to exercise