Assessment of the Role of Education in Changing Lifestyle in Patients with Coronary Heart Diseases

The idea which the progression of coronary artery disease is regularly reversiblewas previously radical concept but today it has become the most common. Anumber of interventions have been reported to arrest or reverse the progressionof coronary atherosclerosis, many of which have been detailed in the time thoseinclude comprehensive changes in lifestyle.5 A total of 100 patients aged lessthan 65 years were interrogated, 50 patients in case groups and 50 in controlgroups. All severely ill patients, and patients aged more than 65 years wereexcluded. We used educational packages for all of our patients, to teach all ofthem risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) and how to change theirlifestyle to reduce those risk factors. Data were analyzed by SPSS software.Patients in intervention group significantly reduce the intake of saturated fat,sugar, and cholesterol (p 0/001), increased their exercises (p 0/001), andstopped smoking (p 0/05), when compared with the usual case group. This studydemonstrated that education has a very important role in changing lifestyles ofCHD patents and it helped to reduce risk factors of CHD.