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Addressing Chronic Disease Through Lifestyle Medicine

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Personalized virtual journey to prevent and reverse chronic disease

Chronic Disease

Chronic health conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, cancer, respiratory diseases, and type 2 diabetes are the leading cause of mortality around the world, accounting for 41 million deaths per year, or 71% of the global total.1 Six in 10 U.S. adults have a chronic disease; 4 in 10 have two or more chronic diseases.2

The clinical and financial burdens chronic diseases place on health care systems, health plans, employers, and employees and their families are alarming and unsustainable. Fortunately, many chronic conditions are related to lifestyle choices and can be prevented, delayed, treated, and even reversed.

Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle Medicine is an evidence-based approach to treating and reversing chronic diseases by replacing negative behaviors with positive ones. Delivered by clinicians trained and certified in the specialty, it addresses underlying causes, and symptoms, by focusing on the lifestyle choices that give rise to these diseases. The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has identified six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine.3

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Summus Wellbeing

This personalized, virtual specialty care solution connects individuals with Lifestyle Medicine trained and certified Summus MDs. Summus solves the challenges of efficient access to high quality care by reducing barriers to best-in-class expertise.

Solution benefits
  • Fast, virtual access to Summus MDs trained in Lifestyle Medicine, across all conditions regardless of geography
  • Focused on educating individuals on ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle and make positive choices
  • Prevention, treatment, and reversal of chronic disease
  • Single, cost-effective solution for employee wellbeing

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Endnotes
1 Noncommunicable diseases (who.int)
2 Chronic Diseases in America | CDC
3 ACLM Home (lifestylemedicine.org)


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