Fabien DeMeester

Diet and Lifestyle, Recommendations for 2009: A Scientific Statement ofInternational College of Cardiology

The world scientific community has been reading the diet and lifestyle guidelines for prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD) with great interest, for the last few decades. Recommendations of the AHA [1] have been reformed for better understanding, based on new scientific evidence which has emerged after publication of guidelines in 2000. However, none of these guidelines emphasized on the role of diet in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) [2-4]. Patients presenting with AMI, due to their serious condition, are highly motivated to follow what is being advised by the cardiologist. It is easy to change health behaviors of the victims when they are admitted in the intensive cardiac care unit, to follow the same diet when they go back home.