Cardiovascular Diseases, Chronic Lifestyle Related Disease, Diabetes, Dyslipidemias, Hypertension, Overweight and Obesity
Conditions
Brief summary
This project will evaluate the success of the PI's lifestyle medicine practice.
Detailed description
The main objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the PI's lifestyle medicine practice over time. Sub-objectives are: 1. Understand variables that affect success in application of lifestyle medicine to lead to improved patient outcomes. 2. Develop a model for practice evaluation that can be utilized for board certification of providers and practices that utilize lifestyle medicine. 3. Evaluate the reimbursement success of lifestyle medicine services as a factor of billing codes and insurance providers.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALLifestyle Medicine
Treatment modalities consist of encouraging a plant based, whole food diet, physical activity, stress management, healthy sleep, control of unhealthy habits.
Sponsors
Ohio University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Patients are being treated with established lifestyle medicine modalities, tailored to the individual patient need and situation.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Adult patients who are seen by the PI in his lifestyle medicine practice at Muntean Health Care.
Exclusion criteria
* none
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 1 year | change in weight |
| Systolic Blood Pressure | 1 year | change in systolic blood pressure |
| Diastolic Blood Pressure | 1 year | change in diastolic blood pressure |
| Glycosylated hemoglobin | 1 year | change in glycosylated hemoglobin |
| Total cholesterol | 1 year | change in total cholesterol |
| low density lipoprotein cholesterol | 1 year | change in low density lipoprotein cholesterol |
| triglycerides | 1 year | change in triglycerides |
| high density lipoprotein cholesterol | 1 year | change in high density lipoprotein cholesterol |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| steps | 1 year | average number of steps per day |
| exercise | 1 year | average minutes of exercise per day |
| fiber | 1 year | average grams of fiber consumed on a daily basis |
| legumes | 1 year | average quantity of legumes consumed on a daily basis |
| full plate | 1 year | average percent of plate filled with foods high in fiber and water |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed