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- Title
Ideal cardiovascular health and risk of death in a large Swedish cohort.
- Authors
Ding, Lijie; Ponzano, Marta; Grotta, Alessandra; Adami, Hans-Olov; Xue, Fuzhong; Lagerros, Ylva Trolle; Bellocco, Rino; Ye, Weimin
- Abstract
Background: Ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) can be assessed by 7 metrics: smoking, body mass index, physical activity, diet, hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes, proposed by the American Heart Association. We examined the association of ideal CVH metrics with risk of all-cause, CVD and non-CVD death in a large cohort. Methods: A total of 29,557 participants in the Swedish National March Cohort were included in this study. We ascertained 3,799 deaths during a median follow-up of 19 years. Cox regression models were used to estimate hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) of the association between CVH metrics with risk of death. Laplace regression was used to estimate 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles of age at death. Results: Compared with those having 6–7 ideal CVH metrics, participants with 0–2 ideal metrics had 107% (95% CI = 46-192%) excess risk of all-cause, 224% (95% CI = 72-509%) excess risk of CVD and 108% (31-231%) excess risk of non-CVD death. The median age at death among those with 6–7 vs. 0–2 ideal metrics was extended by 4.2 years for all-causes, 5.8 years for CVD and 2.9 years for non-CVD, respectively. The observed associations were stronger among females than males. Conclusions: The strong inverse association between number of ideal CVH metrics and risk of death supports the application of the proposed seven metrics for individual risk assessment and general health promotion.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; AMERICAN Heart Association; HEALTH risk assessment; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors; BODY mass index; PHYSICAL activity; HEALTH promotion
- Publication
BMC Public Health, 2024, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2458
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12889-024-17885-4