Do unfavorable patterns of cardiovascular health change through young adulthood increase the risk of incident cardiovascular disease in later life?
Maintaining high cardiovascular health throughout young adulthood is important for preventing later-life cardiovascular disease.
In this prospective cohort study of young adults, unfavorable patterns of CVH change through young adulthood were associated with marked elevations in risk for incident CVD. These data suggest that achieving and maintaining high CVH throughout young adulthood through strategies of primordial prevention are important for prevention of later-life CVD.
Guo et al. (2025) studied this question.