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Infographic: The need for a global healthy living medicine strategy
  1. Ross Arena1,
  2. Bruno Paula Caraça Smirmaul2
  1. 1 Department of Physical Therapy, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  2. 2 Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Educação, Rio Claro, Brazil
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ross Arena, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL 60612, USA; raarena{at}uic.edu

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099696

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    Leading an unhealthy lifestyle, specifically being physically inactive, consuming foods with low nutritional value, smoking and maintaining excess body mass, begets a substantially higher risk for a myriad of chronic diseases [eg, cardiovascular disease (CVD)] , adverse health events (eg, myocardial infarction) and premature mortality.1 From an economic perspective, caring for individuals demonstrating an unhealthy lifestyle phenotype come at a much higher cost, through more frequent hospitalisations, surgeries, pharmacological therapies and so on (figure 1).1 2 Individuals who demonstrate healthy living characteristics have a …

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    • Contributors RA: conceived and designed the initial written draft, revised and approved the final version. BPCS: prepared the initial infographic draft, provided substantial intellectual content, revised and approved the final version.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.