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Redefining Cardiovascular Health to Include Sleep: Prospective Associations With Cardiovascular Disease in the MESA Sleep Study

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background Although sufficient and healthy sleep is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors, the American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7 (LS7), as a measure of cardiovascular health (CVH), did not include sleep ...
Nour Makarem   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life's Simple 7 at Midlife and Risk of Recurrent Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality after Stroke: The ARIC study. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis, 2022
Background: Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among adults in the U.S. Ideal levels of the Life's Simple 7 (LS7) are associated with lower cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality.
Commodore-Mensah Y   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Life's Simple 7 and the risk of stroke in Finnish men: A prospective cohort study

open access: yesPreventive Medicine, 2021
Population-wide preventive measures constitute important approaches towards reducing stroke risk and its associated burden. We sought to examine the association between American Heart Association's (AHA) Life's Simple7 (LS7) score and the risk of stroke in men.The study is based on the prospective population-based Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease cohort ...
Isiozor, Nzechukwu   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Educational Attainment, Race, and Ethnicity as Predictors for Ideal Cardiovascular Health: From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background Educational attainment is protective for cardiovascular health (CVH), but the benefits of education may not persist across racial and ethnic groups.
Amber E. Johnson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 Related Protocol Considerations and Modifications within a Rural, Community-Engaged Health Promotion Randomized Trial

open access: yesMethods and Protocols, 2023
Rural communities are at higher risk for physical inactivity, poor dietary behaviors, and related chronic diseases and obesity. These disparities are largely driven by built environment, socioeconomic, and social factors.
Rebecca A. Seguin-Fowler   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life’s Simple 7 and Risk of Incident Stroke [PDF]

open access: yesStroke, 2013
Background and Purpose— The American Heart Association developed Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) as a metric defining cardiovascular health. We investigated the association between LS7 and incident stroke in black and white Americans. Methods— The Reasons for Geographic And Racial Differences
Ambar, Kulshreshtha   +9 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A Longitudinal Study of Acculturation in Context and Cardiovascular Health and Their Effects on Cognition Among Older Latino Adults

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background We previously outlined the importance of considering acculturation within the context of older Latino adults' lived experience (ie, acculturation in context) to better capture contributors to cognitive aging.
Melissa Lamar   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship of the American Heart Association's Impact Goals (Life's Simple 7) With Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: Results From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Cohort Study

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016
BackgroundAs part of its 2020 Impact Goals, the American Heart Association developed the Life's Simple 7 metric for cardiovascular health promotion. The relationship between the Life's Simple 7 metric and incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) is unknown.
Casey M. Rebholz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Change in Life’s Simple 7 Measure of Cardiovascular Health After Incident Stroke [PDF]

open access: yesStroke, 2021
Background and Purpose: Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) is a metric for cardiovascular health based on the 7 domains of smoking, diet, physical activity, body mass index, blood pressure, total cholesterol, and fasting glucose. Because they may be targeted for secondary prevention purposes, we hypothesized that stroke survivors would ...
Chelsea Liu   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Life's Simple 7: Saving Black Men's Lives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The burden of cardiometabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes (DM), obesity and hypertension as well as cancer is greatest among Africans Americans (AA).
Parks, Latasha   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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