An omission in guidelines. Cardiovascular disease prevention should also focus on dietary policies for healthcare facilities. Issue 1 (January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: de Frel, Daan L.; Assendelft, Willem J.J.; Hondmann, Sara; Janssen, Veronica R.; Molema, Johanna J.W.; Trines, Serge A.; de Vries, Iris A.C.; Schalij, Martin J.; Atsma, Douwe E.
• Is Part Of: Clinical nutrition. Volume 42:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 18
• Page End: 21
• Publication Date: 2023-01
• Subjects: Policy making -- Prevention -- Diet -- Behaviour -- Guidelines -- Lifestyle medicine; Critically ill -- Nutrition -- Periodicals; Diet therapy -- Periodicals; Parenteral feeding -- Periodicals; Enteral feeding -- Periodicals; Enteral Nutrition -- Periodicals; Parenteral Nutrition -- Periodicals; Metabolism -- Periodicals; Diétothérapie -- Périodiques; Alimentation parentérale -- Périodiques; Alimentation entérale -- Périodiques; Nutrition -- Périodiques; Diet therapy; Enteral feeding; Nutrition; Parenteral feeding; Electronic journals; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 615.854
• DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2022.11.010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0261-5614

Abstract

Summary: Suboptimal diet is a major modifiable risk factor in cardiovascular disease. Governments, individuals, educational institutes, healthcare facilities and the industry all share the responsibility to improve dietary habits. Healthcare facilities in particular present a unique opportunity to convey the importance of healthy nutrition to patients, visitors and staff. Guidelines on cardiovascular disease do include policy suggestions for population-based approaches to diet in a broad list of settings. Regrettably, healthcare facilities are not explicitly included in this list. The authors propose to explicitly include healthcare facilities as a setting for policy suggestions in the current and future ESC Guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice.