Adherence to Life’s Simple 7 and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011 to 2014 [PDF]
Background The American Heart Association proposed the Life’s Simple 7 (LS7; including diet, physical activity, smoking, body mass index, blood pressure, plasma fasting glucose, total cholesterol) to promote cardiovascular health.
Jingkai Wei +3 more
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Comparative Discrimination of Life’s Simple 7, Life’s Essential 8, and Life’s Crucial 9: Evaluating the impact of added complexity on mortality prediction [PDF]
Background Cardiovascular health (CVH) is a key determinant of mortality, but the comparative effectiveness of different CVH metrics remains uncertain.
Xu Zhu +8 more
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A Low Life’s Simple 7 Score Is an Independent Risk Factor for Postoperative Delirium After Total Knee Arthroplasty [PDF]
Background and Objectives: Postoperative delirium (PODil) is a cognitive condition characterized by sudden fluctuations in consciousness and orientation after surgery.
Yong-Bum Joo +5 more
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Life’s Simple 7 and Incident Hypertension: The REGARDS Study [PDF]
Background The Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) metric incorporates health behaviors (body mass index, diet, smoking, physical activity) and health factors (blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose) to estimate an individual’s level of cardiovascular health.
Timothy B. Plante +9 more
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Association between Life’s Simple 7 and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in cognitively intact adults: the CABLE study [PDF]
Introduction This study sought to explore the association between Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathological biomarkers in the cognitively normal northern Chinese population.
Yong-Li Zhao +6 more
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Association of Life’s Simple 7 and ideal cardiovascular health in American Indians/Alaska Natives [PDF]
Objective American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) are an understudied population at high risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs); little is known about contextual factors contributing to CVDs in AI/ANs.
Smita Rawal +3 more
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Depressive symptoms and cardiovascular health by the American Heart Association's definition in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Depressive symptoms are associated with increased incident and recurrent cardiovascular events. In 2010, the American Heart Association published the Life's Simple 7, a metric for assessing cardiovascular health as measured by 4 health ...
Ian M Kronish +4 more
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Comparing Life’s Simple 7 and Life’s Essential 8 With Risk of Heart Failure [PDF]
Background: Better cardiovascular health (CVH) lowers risk of heart failure (HF). CVH can be quantified using Life’s Essential 8 (LE8), a score consisting of 8 health factors and behaviors. Objectives: The authors assessed the association between LE8 and
Inge G. van Loon, MSc +4 more
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Cross‐Sectional Association of Physical Activity With Life’s Simple 7 Metrics in Community‐Dwelling Black Men [PDF]
Background Black men are burdened by a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors than non‐Hispanic White and Hispanic American men and women. Physical activity may improve other modifiable cardiovascular risk factors, but this relationship is ...
Jacsen Luthy +8 more
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Association of life’s simple 7 with cognitive function in a multi-ethnic cohort [PDF]
Background and objectives: Multiple lifestyle and health factors could contribute to cognitive health, while not many studies examined the factors in a combined way, especially in Asian population.
Xiangyuan Huang +6 more
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