Further understanding of ideal cardiovascular health score metrics and cardiovascular disease
Why the study?
The American Heart Association introduced the cardiovascular health construct for primordial prevention, prompting a need to review its utility for monitoring wellness, tracking temporal trends, and evaluating disparities.
Does achievement of ideal cardiovascular health metrics reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the general population?
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Implication
Supports primordial prevention in practice; extends observational CVH data while leaving optimal population strategies open.
Structured PICO
Does achievement of ideal cardiovascular health metrics reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the general population?
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Population
General population, including U.S. adults
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Intervention
Achievement of ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) metrics (smoking, physical activity, body mass index, diet, total cholesterol, blood pressure, blood glucose)
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Comparator
Lower achievement of ideal CVH metrics
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Outcome
Incidence of CVD, cardiovascular mortality, and all-cause mortalityhard clinical
Achieving a greater number of ideal cardiovascular health metrics is associated with lower cardiovascular disease and mortality, highlighting the importance of primordial prevention despite low current achievement rates.
Cite This Study
Michos et al. (2021) studied this question.