--- title: "Precision lifestyle medicine. | Sutter Health" description: "Challenges to lifestyle interventions: implementing lifestyle interventions in diverse settings, identifying inds. who will max. benefit, engage diverse pts." url: "https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications/precision-lifestyle-medicine-1055312346" --- 1. [Home](https://www.sutterhealth.org/) / 2. [Research](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research) / 3. [Research publications](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications) / 4. Precision lifestyle medicine. # Precision lifestyle medicine: a new frontier in the science of behavior change and population health. Ma J, Rosas LG, & Lv N. _Am J Prev Med. pii: S0749-3797(15)00638-8. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.09.035. \[Epub ahead of print\]_ 2015-12-01 ## Abstract Precision lifestyle medicine is fundamental to the success of efforts to prevent and control costly chronic conditions, improve the health of populations, and eliminate health disparities. Because lifestyle behaviors are responsible for the greatest proportion of death and disability in the U.S. and worldwide, it is imperative to transform traditional lifestyle intervention approaches. Challenges to contemporary lifestyle interventions are related to a lack of precision in three domains: (1) successfully developing and implementing lifestyle interventions in diverse settings, (2) efficiently identifying individuals who will maximally benefit from intervention within those settings, and (3) effectively engaging and retaining the diversity of patient experience. Availability of resources, existing expertise, and policies that support lifestyle interventions are a few of the factors that vary in communities, healthcare systems, and other settings. [PubMed abstract](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749379715006388) ## Research topics - [All Cancer](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22All+Cancer%5C%22%22) - [Cardiovascular Diseases](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Cardiovascular+Diseases%5C%22%22) - [Diabetes, Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Diabetes%2C+Insulin+Resistance+and+Metabolic+Syndrome%5C%22%22) - [Disease Management](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Disease+Management%5C%22%22) - [Food and Nutrition](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Food+and+Nutrition%5C%22%22) - [Health Disparities](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Health+Disparities%5C%22%22) - [Health Services](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Health+Services%5C%22%22) - [Lung Diseases](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Lung+Diseases%5C%22%22) - [Obesity](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Obesity%5C%22%22) - [Smoking](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Smoking%5C%22%22) ## Related publications [View all publications](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?verticalKey=research_publication) - Publication ### [A Latino Patient-Centered, Evidence-Based Approach to Diabetes Prevention.](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications/latino-pt-centered-evidence-based-approach-to-dm-prevention-1055312326) Rosas LG, Lv N, Lewis MA, Venditti EM, Zavella P, Luna V, Ma J. J Am Board Fam Med. 31(3):364-374. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2018.03.170280. 2018 May 01 - Publication ### [HOMBRE: A randomized controlled trial to compare two approaches to weight loss for overweight and obese Latino men (men with choices to improve well-being and decrease chronic disease risk).](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications/hombre-rct-weight-loss-approaches-latino-men-1055312293) Rosas LG, Lv N, Azar KMJ, Xiao L, Hooker SP, Lewis MA, Zavella P, Venditti EM, Ma J. Contemp Clin Trials. pii: S1551-7144(17)30629-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2018.02.019. \[Epub ahead of print\] 2018 Mar 02 - Publication ### [Behavioral lifestyle interventions for moderate and severe obesity: a systematic review.](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications/beh-lifestyle-interventions-mod-severe-obesity-1055312350) Lv N, Azar KMJ, Rosas LG, Wulfovich S, Xiao L, Ma J. Prev Med. pii: S0091-7435(17)30142-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.04.022. \[Epub ahead of print\] 2017 Apr 24 - Publication ### [Evaluation of a culturally-adapted lifestyle intervention to treat elevated cardiometabolic risk of Latino adults in primary care (Vida Sana): a randomized controlled trial.](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications/eval-outpt-diabetes-prev-prog-latino-adults-1055312475) Rosas LG, Lv N, Xiao L, Lewis M, Zavella P, Kramer MK, Luna V, Ma J. Contemp Clin Trials. pii: S1551-7144(16)30029-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2016.03.003. \[Epub ahead of print\] 2016 Mar 16 - Publication ### [Virtual small groups for weight management: an innovative delivery mechanism for evidence-based lifestyle interventions among obese men.](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications/virtual-small-groups-weight-mgmt-in-obese-men-1055312966) Azar KM, Aurora M, Wang EJ, Muzaffar A, Pressman A, Palaniappan LP. 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