Table 5.
Evidence-Base for Lifestyle Medicine: Statements That Reached Consensus.
| Number a | Statement | Mean | Outliers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Lifestyle medicine can decrease overall health care costs and improve health outcomes in patients who are able to make sustained behavioral changes | 8.8 | 0 |
| 43 | Lifestyle medicine can promote health equity by serving historically marginalized populations, who often suffer disproportionately from chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease | 8.3 | 0 |
| 44 | Lifestyle medicine can advance planetary health | 7.8 | 0 |
| 45 | Lifestyle medicine can advance planetary health by encouraging patients to adopt climate-healthy behavior changes, such as a plant-forward diet. | 7.9 | 1 |
| 46 | Lifestyle medicine is informed by an established, and rapidly growing, evidence-base of peer-reviewed research that includes systematic reviews, randomized trials, large cohort studies, and other scientific publications | 8.6 | 0 |
| 47 | Current evidence supports lifestyle medicine as the foundation of managing chronic, non-communicable disease | 8.6 | 0 |
| 48 | When feasible, lifestyle medicine clinicians should study, research, and publish findings to improve the evidence-based practice of lifestyle medicine | 8.4 | 0 |
aNumber in the initial list of candidate statements.