Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease through population-wide motivational strategies: insights from using smartphones in stroke prevention
Open Access
- 4 April 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Global Health
- Vol. 2 (2), e000306
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000306
Abstract
The fast increasing stroke burden across all countries of the world suggests that currently used primary stroke and cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention strategies are not sufficiently effective. In this article, we overview the gaps in, and pros and cons of, population-wide and high-risk prevention strategies. We suggest that motivating and empowering people to reduce their risk of having a stroke/CVD by using increasingly used smartphone technologies would bridge the gap in the population-wide and high-risk prevention strategies and reduce stroke/CVD burden worldwide. We emphasise that for primary stroke prevention to be effective, the focus should be shifted from high-risk prevention to prevention at any level of CVD risk, with the focus on behavioural risk factors. Such a motivational population-wide strategy could open a new page in primary prevention of not only stroke/CVD but also other non-communicable disorders worldwide.Keywords
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