Disparities Between Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics and Subclinical Atherosclerotic Burden

Editorial Disparities in Ideal Cardiovascular Health

In 2010, the American Heart Association (AHA) declared 2020 health strategy goals to reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease and stroke by 20% and to improve the cardiovascular health (CVH) of all Americans by 20%.1 The latter goal is aimed at helping everyone living in the United States to achieve, or at least move toward, ideal CVH by focusing on 7 key health behaviors and risk factors—smok...

Disparities in Ideal Cardiovascular Health: A Challenge or an Opportunity? Running title: Rodriguez; Disparities in ideal cardiovascular health

Disparities in ideal cardiovascular health: a challenge or an opportunity?

In 2010, the American Heart Association (AHA) declared 2020 health strategy goals to reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease and stroke by 20% and to improve the cardiovascular health (CVH) of all Americans by 20%.1 The latter goal is aimed at helping everyone living in the United States to achieve, or at least move toward, ideal CVH by focusing on 7 key health behaviors and risk factors—smok...

Association between Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics and Depression in Chinese Population: A Cross-sectional Study

The study aimed to examine the association between ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) metrics and depression. We conducted a population-based, cross-sectional study of 6,851 participants aged 20 years or older (3,525 men and 3,326 women) living in Tangshan City, China. Information on the seven CVH metrics (including smoking, body mass index, dietary intake, physical activity, blood pressure, tot...

Ideal cardiovascular health and subclinical markers of carotid structure and function the Paris prospective study III.

OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that subclinical markers of vascular structure and function, which are independent predictors of cardiovascular disease, would be less frequent in subjects with ideal than poor cardiovascular health (CVH) as defined by the American Heart Association (AHA). APPROACH AND RESULTS Carotid parameters were measured using high-precision echotracking device in 9155 nonreferr...