Key result
Highest healthy lifestyle score linked to ~70% lower cardiovascular mortality risk vs lowest score.
Why the study?
The extent to which healthy lifestyle behaviours reduce cardiovascular mortality among Japanese men and women was evaluated to understand potential prevention through lifestyle modification.
Do healthy lifestyle behaviors reduce cardiovascular mortality in Japanese men and women?
Do healthy lifestyle behaviors reduce cardiovascular mortality in Japanese men and women?
Adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviors is associated with a substantial reduction in cardiovascular mortality among Japanese adults.
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May support lifestyle counseling in Japanese adults; extends evidence to this population but leaves causality open.
Mortality from stroke, CHD, and CVD in the highest healthy lifestyle score category was one-third in men and one-fourth in women of those in the lowest scores, suggesting that a large fraction of CVD could be prevented through lifestyle modification.
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Eguchi et al. (2012) studied this question. The highest healthy lifestyle score category was associated with stroke, CHD, and CVD mortality that was one-third in men and one-fourth in women compared to the lowest score category.
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