Cardiovascular disease prevention among youth: visioning the future.

Abstract

Health behaviors among youth are interrelated and appear likely to extend into adult years. Thus cardiovascular disease prevention among youth will continue to be needed and may be critical to the prevention of high risk in the first place. These prevention efforts should be guided by behavioral models and etiological research. Healthy environments are important for the maintenance of healthy behaviors among young people and we need to know better how to change them. Moreover, successful prevention strategies among youth need to be disseminated globally as rapidly as they are found.