{"id":59183,"date":"2014-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professors-and-lifespan-create-new-healthy-lifestyle-program-to-reduce-risk-of-chronic-diseases-among-new-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professors-and-lifespan-create-new-healthy-lifestyle-program-to-reduce-risk-of-chronic-diseases-among-new-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/uri-professors-and-lifespan-create-new-healthy-lifestyle-program-to-reduce-risk-of-chronic-diseases-among-new-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 professors and Lifespan create new healthy lifestyle program to reduce risk of chronic diseases among new immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 7, 2014 — The new Vida Sana\/Healthy Life program that’s offered to uninsured, mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants at the Cl\u00ednica Esperanza\/Hope Clinic in Providence, has been shown to decrease the chronic risk factors for 60 percent of the participants. The key to the success of the program, says Annie De Groot of the 溏心vlog免费B站, is that patients are placed in social situations that encourage healthy lifestyles. <\/p>\n


\nThe intervention was developed by diabetes expert Dr. Susan Oliverio from Lifespan, Rhode Island College Nursing program graduate Valerie Joseph, R.N., Brown undergraduate Jacob Buckley, 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty member Shahla Yekta, and De Groot, director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Institute for Immunology and Informatics.<\/p>\n


\nMetabolic syndrome is a common condition that can contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Thirty-five percent of adults living in the United States meet the criteria for having metabolic syndrome; the number is even higher for people who do not have quality health care.<\/p>\n


\nThe \u2018\u2019Vida Sana\/Healthy Life\u201d program is a healthy lifestyle program at Cl\u00ednica Esperanza\/Hope Clinic, a free clinic in Providence that serves mostly Hispanic people who have low incomes and no insurance. (De Groot is the clinic\u2019s medical director.) The study cost less than $600 per participant over eight weeks of analysis and three months of follow-up.<\/p>\n


\nThe study showed that the average participant lost nearly 4 pounds, while the average weight change observed in three other lifestyle intervention studies was a loss of 2 to 7 pounds. Nearly 90 percent of the participants had improvements in their knowledge of healthy habits and 60 percent experienced decreased risk factors (blood sugar, cholesterol and body mass index or waist size) linked to metabolic syndrome.<\/p>\n


\nThe program uses language-appropriate materials developed by Oliverio and peer educators to teach participants about healthy living in a setting that also provided opportunities to socialize. The report was recently published in the Journal of Community Health. CVS Caremark, the American Medical Association Foundation and the Rhode Island Department of Health provided funding for the study.<\/p>\n


\nClinica Esperanza\/Hope Clinic is a free, largely volunteer health care clinic in the Olneyville neighborhood in Providence\u2019s West End. The clinic offers treatment for chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The facility also has a women\u2019s clinic, and diabetes support groups and healthy lifestyle\/nutrition education.<\/p>\n


\nThe clinic only serves uninsured individuals who do not have a primary care doctor. The primary care clinic sees continuing patients on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5- 9 p.m. The walk-in clinic is open Monday through Friday from 2-7 p.m.<\/p>\n


\nTo learn more about the clinic and volunteer opportunities, visit the clinic\u2019s website at http:\/\/www.aplacetobehealthy.org<\/a>.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 7, 2014 — The new Vida Sana\/Healthy Life program that’s offered to uninsured, mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants at the Cl\u00ednica Esperanza\/Hope Clinic in Providence, has been shown to decrease the chronic risk factors for 60 percent of the participants. The key to the success of the program, says Annie De Groot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}