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Suboptimal cardiovascular health in emerging adulthood accounts for the majority of premature cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, underscoring the critical need for primordial prevention across the early life course. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To outline the life course health development framework for understanding how risk and protective factors from early life shape adult cardiovascular disease.

August 15, 2026Journal of the American College of CardiologyOpen Access

Life Course Developmental Approach to Cardiovascular Health and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

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To outline the life course health development framework for understanding how risk and protective factors from early life shape adult cardiovascular disease.
Synthesized the life course health development conceptual model integrating biological and social embedding across developmental windows.
Evaluated prospective findings from the biracial Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA) following adults aged 18–30 years over three decades.
Lack of ideal cardiovascular health (a composite of seven metrics) in emerging adults accounted for approximately two-thirds of the premature cardiovascular disease burden.
Less than one-third of young adults had ideal cardiovascular health at baseline, with Black adults exhibiting higher incidence rates of cardiovascular disease than white adults (0.90 vs. 0.50/1000 person-years).
Baseline associations between non-ideal cardiovascular health and prospective cardiovascular disease were maintained across five of seven individual metrics, excluding physical activity and diet.

Implication

Perspective demonstrates premature cardiovascular disease risk from suboptimal health metrics in emerging adults, highlighting the importance of early life course intervention.

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Vasan et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8050f390df07fd7ab3b507 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.10.011

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Perspective demonstrates premature cardiovascular disease risk from suboptimal health metrics in emerging adults, highlighting the importance of early life course intervention.

Life Course Developmental Approach to Cardiovascular Health and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

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Life Course Developmental Approach to Cardiovascular Health and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

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