Open AccessLifestyle Medicine: The Time is Now
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Pegg Frates,
David L. Katz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de la facultad de medicina humana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2308-0531
pISSN - 1814-5469
DOI - 10.25176/rfmh.v22i1.4390
Subject(s) - pandemic , lifestyle medicine , obesity , medicine , diabetes mellitus , covid-19 , plague (disease) , disease , dementia , gerontology , sedentary lifestyle , alternative medicine , outbreak , family medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , pathology , endocrinology
The time for lifestyle medicine is now. We need lifestyle medicine to help manage the ongoing outbreaks of lifestyle related chronic conditions like diabetes, obesity, dementia, and heart disease that continue to plague our world today, and we need lifestyle medicine to help handle the worldwide pandemic created by COVID-19. Mozafarrian and colleagues noted that among the 900,000 coronavirus disease hospitalizations in 2019 through November 18, 2020, 63.5% of them were estimated to be attributed to four cardiometabolic conditions: obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure.