Does a healthy lifestyle reduce mortality and incident cardiovascular disease across different socioeconomic status subgroups in US and UK adults?
Healthy lifestyle promotion alone may not substantially reduce socioeconomic health inequities, though it remains important for reducing mortality and CVD risk across all SES groups.
Unhealthy lifestyles mediated a small proportion of the socioeconomic inequity in health in both US and UK adults; therefore, healthy lifestyle promotion alone might not substantially reduce the socioeconomic inequity in health, and other measures tackling social determinants of health are warranted. Nevertheless, healthy lifestyles were associated with lower mortality and CVD risk in different SES subgroups, supporting an important role of healthy lifestyles in reducing disease burden.
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