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Lifestyle medicine adds to conventional medicine by closely examining environmental and distal determinants and individual behaviours that influence disease.
Clinical
Lifestyle medicine might offer an adjunct approach to better managing chronic disease.
Growing evidence shows that lifestyle interventions are an effective component of management for patients with mental illness to improve mental health, physical health and quality of life.
Professional
Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas.
Research
Programmed shared medical appointments are effective, well accepted and cost efficient for body weight management.
Chronic non-cancer pain management illustrates the case for reconceptualising chronic condition management using a generic lifestyle-based approach.
Editorial
Lifestyle medicine has arisen as a relatively new (adjunct) discipline to assist conventional approaches to clinical care in dealing with lifestyle and environmental disease.
Letters
Readers express their opinions on published articles and topics of interest.
A systematic approach to the management of patients with atrial fibrillation, including the initial investigations required, rhythm versus rate control and anticoagulation for stroke prevention.
A summary of state-of-the-art scientific and bioethical research providing up-to-date recommendations on placebo use for general practitioners.
Prompt recognition and management of tinea infection help reduce morbidity and its associated complications; practical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment are outlined.
Continued support by public health nurses may lead to a comprehensive reduction in the risk of lifestyle diseases.
This study provided a timely assessment of general practitioner knowledge and attitudes to prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV.
Meanings of fatness and obesity are plural and have changed across history and within and between cultures.
Viewpoint
Screening with immunological tests is not a proxy for the rational process of formulating a differential diagnosis.
Clinical challenge
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