COURAGE: Lifestyle intervention and risk factor goals

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COURAGE Lifestyle intervention and risk factor
goals

• Smoking cessation
• Exercise program
• 30 min moderately intensive exercise 5x/week
• Nutrition counseling
• Total dietary fat lt30 of calories
• Saturated fat lt7 of calories
• Dietary cholesterol lt200 mg/day
• Weight control
• BMI lt25 kg/m2 (if baseline BMI 25.0-27.5)
• 10 relative weight loss (if baseline BMI gt27.5)

• LDL-C (mg/dL)
• 60-85
• HDL-C (mg/dL)
• 40
• Triglycerides (mg/dL)
• lt150
• BP (mm Hg)
• lt130/85
• lt130/80 if diabetes or renal disease present
• A1C ()
• lt7.0

Boden WE et al. Am Heart J. 20061511173-9.