Association of Cardiovascular Health With Subclinical Disease and Incident Events: The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Why the study?
Is there an association between Cardiovascular Health (CVH) scores and subclinical or overt cardiovascular disease across different race/ethnic groups?
Population
Participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Design
Cohort
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports equitable CVH-based risk assessment across groups; leaves open causal effects on outcomes.
Structured PICO
Is there an association between Cardiovascular Health (CVH) scores and subclinical or overt cardiovascular disease across different race/ethnic groups?
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Population
Participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
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Intervention
Cardiovascular Health (CVH) scores
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Outcome
Measures of subclinical and overt cardiovascular disease and incident events
Higher Cardiovascular Health scores are inversely associated with subclinical and overt cardiovascular disease consistently across racial and ethnic groups.
Cite This Study
Polonsky et al. (2017) studied this question.