Abstract 206: Abstract submission for QCOR 2017

Background: Although healthy lifestyle behaviors have been shown to significantly reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD), offsetting even genetic risk, most CVD programs focus solely on risk scores rather than calculating health improvement. We sought to validate a newly developed quantitative composite healthy lifestyle behavioral score, the Optimal Health Impact Factor (OHIF), which captures behavioral change by attainment of thresholds established by clinical guidelines. Methods: Patients in the Integrative Cardiac Health Project’s 12-month Registry, a prospective lifestyle change program for the prevention of CVD, underwent traditional risk assessment by a nurse practitioner. Additionally, at baseline and 12-months, OHIF scores were calculated using validated questionnaires in the following four domains: nutrition (Rate-Your-Plate), exercise (minutes of continuous exercise per week), stress (Perceived Stress Scale) and sleep (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index). Each domain has a gradient of three behavioral...