# Prevention and lifestyle

Front · id `cardio:front-prevention-and-lifestyle` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `f6f6f1b6f50379ed` (public)

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## In plain language

Pages about ways to stop heart and blood-vessel disease before it starts or keeps going: screening, risk scores, food, activity and community programs.

## Technical summary

Navigation grouping for screening, risk assessment, diet, physical activity and public-health or community programs, filed here with part\_of. It is a way to browse. It makes no statement about whether anything in it works.

## Connected pages

- Includes: Rheumatic heart disease burden where prevention and valve surgery are hard to reach (`cardio:bottleneck-rheumatic-heart-disease-burden`)
- Includes: Many people with hypertension are not diagnosed, treated or controlled (`cardio:bottleneck-uncontrolled-hypertension`)
- Includes: Heart-healthy living (`cardio:heart-healthy-living`)
- Includes: Life's Essential 8 (`cardio:lifes-essential-8`)
- Includes: Rheumatic heart disease (`cardio:rheumatic-heart-disease`)
- Includes: DASH eating plan (`cardio:dash-eating-plan`)
- Includes: Mediterranean diet (`cardio:mediterranean-diet`)
- Includes: Hypertension treatment by nonphysician professionals, such as pharmacists and nurses (`cardio:nonphysician-hypertension-treatment`)
- Includes: Salt substitution (lower-sodium, potassium-containing salt) (`cardio:salt-substitution`)
- Includes: WHO HEARTS technical package (`cardio:who-hearts`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 86248ef7720c6610e9ed12f27bb5631cfa94064d4f40807299230046f81358bf
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: Not recorded