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American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7: Avoiding Heart Failure and Preserving Cardiac Structure and Function

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Many people may underappreciate the role of lifestyle in avoiding heart failure. We estimated whether greater adherence in middle age to American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 guidelines -- on smoking, body mass, physical activity, diet, cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose -- is associated with lower lifetime risk of heart failure and greater preservation of cardiac structure and function in old age.

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/gqz5-ey83

Authors: Alonso, Alvaro, Konety, Suma, Solomon, Scott D., Miedema, Michael D., Chang, Patricia P., Avery, Christy L.

Language: English

Topic: Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors

Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute