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Lifestyle therapy, specifically smoking cessation, is the single most important component of lifestyle management for patients with cardiorenal and metabolic diseases.
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Smoking cessation is the single most important component of lifestyle therapy, and a clinician’s encouragement is cited as a frequent motivator to quit smoking [16].
Why this rating
Based on consensus guidelines and cited literature [16], not a primary RCT in this text.
Source
DCRM 2.0: Multispecialty practice recommendations for the management of diabetes, cardiorenal, and metabolic diseases
Yehuda Handelsman et al. · Metabolism · 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.metabol.2024.155931
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