Why the study?
Life's Essential 8 metrics aid primordial prevention in US populations, but their validity in relation to cardiovascular structural status in children needed evaluation.
Do Life's Essential 8 metrics correlate with cardiovascular structural parameters in disease-free children?
Do Life's Essential 8 metrics correlate with cardiovascular structural parameters in disease-free children?
Life's Essential 8 metrics are valid for assessing cardiovascular health in children, as lower scores correlate with worse cardiovascular structural measurements like increased left ventricular mass and carotid intima-media thickness.
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Supports Life's Essential 8 as correlate of early structural changes in children; extends adult data but leaves causal effects open.
Shu et al. (2023) studied this question.