Heart Disease

Study: Docs often don't provide diet, exercise counseling to at-risk patients

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 11th, 2004

Physicians are missing opportunities to counsel patients already at risk of developing heart disease about the health benefits of improved diet and exercise, according to research from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

In a study that tracked the results of physician office visits between 1992 and 2000, the researchers found that diet counseling was provided in less than 45% of visits and exercise counseling was provided in less than 30% of visits with patients who had at least 1 condition that increased their likelihood of developing heart disease.

"This is clearly a population that would benefit from exercise and diet counseling, and yet...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-11-11)

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