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cord-268040-6i0bmnee	Dean, Elizabeth	Translating COVID-19 Evidence to Maximize Physical Therapists’ Impact and Public Health Response	2020-06-26		.txt	text/plain	2047	119	39	Physical therapists need to redouble their efforts to address NCDs by assessing patients for risk factors and manifestations and institute evidence-based health education (smoking cessation, whole-food plant-based nutrition, weight control, physical activity/exercise), and/or support patients' efforts when these are managed by other professionals. This being the era of NCDs, 46 physical therapists have long been urged to exploit lifestyle and behavioral medicine competencies, 47 to reverse NCDs and their risk factors, eg, atherosclerosis, smoking, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity, often within days or weeks, and atherosclerosis within one year or more. Consistent with the recent report of the Lancet EAT Commission, 57 the American College of Lifestyle Medicine advocates a whole-food plant-based nutrition to maximize health, prevent disease particularly NCDs, reverse these conditions, and reduce disability, premature death and socioeconomic burdens associated with them. Prevention and outcome of COVID-19 could be substantially impacted with exploitation of non-invasive strategies including health and lifestyle education and exercise, that are subsumed within contemporary physical therapist practice.	./cache/cord-268040-6i0bmnee.txt	./txt/cord-268040-6i0bmnee.txt