The concept of ideal cardiovascular health is a valuable metric for population health, associated with lower incidence of CVD.
A number of studies have demonstrated the low prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health in several countries and a strong relationship with subclinical CVD and biomarkers. The association with subclinical markers for CVD provides some evidence of the intermediary biological pathways through which ideal cardiovascular health results in a lower incidence of CVD and highlights the importance of improving cardiovascular health metrics in the general population.
Maclagan et al. (Sat,) studied this question.