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Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Mortality from All Causes and Diseases of the Circulatory System among Adults in the United States
ES Ford, KJ Greenlund... - Circulation, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc BackgroundRecently, the American Heart Association (AHA) developed a set of seven ideal health metrics that will be used to measure progress towards their 2020 goals for cardiovascular health. The objective of the present study was to examine how well these ...
Background—Recently, the American Heart Association (AHA) developed a set of seven ideal health metrics that will be used to measure progress towards their 2020 goals for cardiovascular health. The objective of the present study was to examine how well these metrics predicted mortality from all-causes and diseases of the circulatory system in a national sample of adults in the United States.
Methods and Results—We used data from 7622 adults aged ≥20 years who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 to 2002 and whose mortality through 2006 was determined via linkage to the National Death Index. For the dietary and glycemic metrics, we used alternative measures. During a median follow-up of 5.8 years, 532 deaths (186 deaths from diseases of the circulatory system) occurred. About 1.5% of participants met none of the seven ideal cardiovascular health metrics, and 1.1% of participants met all seven metrics. The number of ideal metrics was significantly and inversely related to mortality from all-causes and diseases of the circulatory system. Compared to participants who met none of the ideal metrics, those meeting five or more metrics had a reduction of 78% (adjusted hazard ratio [a HR]: 0.22; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.10, 0.50) in the risk for all-cause mortality and 88% (a HR: 0.12; 95% CI: 0.03, 0.57) in the risk for mortality from diseases of the circulatory system.
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