Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland), Volume 42, Issue 1, 17 3 2022, Pages 18-21 An omission in guidelines. Cardiovascular disease prevention should also focus on dietary policies for healthcare facilities. de Frel DL, Assendelft WJJ, Hondmann S, Janssen VR, Molema JJW, Trines SA, de Vries IAC, Schalij MJ, Atsma DE

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.

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