What are the recommendations specific to supportive text for lifestyle change interventions after a stroke?
Recommendations specific to supportive text for lifestyle change interventions after a stroke include longer-term follow-up in behavioral interventions to address recurrent events, active education about risk factors, medications, and medication compliance, and interventions to modify lifestyle risk factors. Meta-analysis demonstrates that multimodal interventions decrease the odds of recurrent cardiac events, although there was no significant difference in the odds of recurrent TIA/stroke reported. Two small multimodal RCTs also show promise for reducing cardiovascular end points, although larger, more definitive trials are needed to confirm these results.