Healthy Habits Program for High Cardiovascular Risk Patients: Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

• •Patients who live in the catchment area of the health centers participating in the trial or that have their primary care physician in these centers.
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• •Patients with a diagnosis of coronary heart disease, and / or transluminal angioplasty and / or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). These diagnoses must have occurred longer than six months from the time of inclusion.
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• •Patients with a diagnosis of cerebrovascular accident (CVA), transient ischemic attack (TIA), carotid endarterectomy and / or carotid angioplasty. These diagnoses must have occurred longer than six months from the time of inclusion.
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• •Patients with peripheral arterial disease with or without intermittent claudication, revascularization surgery, bypass placement of arterial and / or peripheral arterial angioplasty. These diagnoses must have occurred longer than six months from the time of inclusion.
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• •Sedentary persons, defined as less than 90 minutes per week of moderate aerobic physical activity in their daily life (leisure, travel or work).