**5. Treatment**

#### **5.1 Lifestyle**

It is well established that lifestyle interventions have a main role in prevention of CVD. Many activities such as diet, aerobic exercise, quitting smoking and alcohol, and a non-sedentary day routine, have shown a significant reduction in blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness [33].

#### *5.1.1 Mediterranean diet*

The diet is one of the tractable modifiers of vascular health and BP, which has exhibited that targeting the whole diet has a more significant effect on BP than focusing on individual foods and nutrients [34].
