Couples Change Diabetes and CVD Habits Together

Couples who attended a preventive cardiology program together, after one partner had suffered a coronary disease event, changed their dietary and exercise habits in tandem, a new analysis from the EUROACTION study shows. Patients who made the most changes were more likely to be associated with partners who did the same, supporting the principle of family-based CVD prevention. Patients who managed to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption and/or increase physical activity were mirrored by partners who did the same. And those patients who did not succeed as well in achieving the goals set had partners who also fared poorly. In the results as a whole from EUROACTION, female patients were less likely to be accompanied by their male partner than the other way around. So women are much more interested as partners in caring for the male patient. EuroPRevent 2011