Abstract: There are numerous risk/protective factors for developing mental disorders in older people. This study examined the contribution of lifestyle (physical activity, sedentary behavior, smoking habits, and alcohol consumption) and psychosocial ...
It was already possible to demonstrate in the 50s that the Mediterranean countries have significantly less coronary heart disease than northern Europe and the USA and that this correlated closely with the diets of people in the Mediterranean region. ...
Background: The Indian plant root Salacia reticulata, which is rich in alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, is used for metabolic disorders in Ayurvedic medicine. Vitamin D3 is also used in the treatment of some metabolic diseases. Our goal was to determine its ...
Background: The prevalence of diabetes is growing worldwide. The primary symptom of diabetes mellitus is elevated blood sugar. This is usually treated with lifestyle intervention and drugs according to an algorithm based on glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) ...
Abstract.Purpose: In Switzerland, prostate cancer mortality is higher in the German than in the Italian-speaking region. We aimed at exploring the association of living in one of the two regions with lifestyle ...
Summary:Background: Guidelines recommend comprehensive lifestyle change in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) to prevent cardiovascular events and death. When compared with other populations, patients with PAD are less likely to receive ...
Summary:Background: Secondary prevention remains under-implemented in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In the present study, we sought to assess the extent, the predictors and the prognostic impact of optimal lifestyle ...
Abstract. The present study identified direct and indirect relationships between lifestyle attributes and exposure to workplace bullying (via the conflict-solving styles of problem solving, compromising, yielding, and forcing). Our results demonstrated ...
Swissheart-Coach – New Online-Riskmanagement Tool for Your PatientsAbstract. The Swiss Heart Foundation has launched a web-based platform with information on cardiovascular risk factors including a risk calculator. Absolute risk and heart age are ...
Abstract. Risk modification through lifestyle is a key element in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebral diseases. By optimally controlling the classical, modifiable cardiovascular risk factors the risk ...
Summary: The concept of “sense of coherence” (SOC) has been widely recognized since it was first introduced by Antonovsky. The originality and usefulness of the SOC scale and its relation to other psychosocial measures has been the subject of lively ...
Abstract:Background: Low adherence to treatment is the most common cause of uncontrolled hypertension. Evidence suggests that illness perceptions and the physician-patient relationship may have a combined effect on treatment adherence. ...