Association of healthy lifestyle with incident cardiovascular diseases among hypertensive and normotensive Chinese adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether lifestyle improvement benefits in reducing cardiovascular diseases (CVD) events extend to hypertensive patients and whether these benefits differ between hypertensive and normotensive individuals is unclear. This study aimed to investigate the associations of an overall healthy lifestyle with the subsequent development of CVD among participants with hypertension and normotension.

Methods

Using data from the Suzhou subcohort of the China Kadoorie Biobank study of 51,929 participants, this study defined five healthy lifestyle factors as nonsmoking or quitting for reasons other than illness; nonexcessive alcohol intake; relatively higher physical activity level; a relatively healthy diet; and having a standard waist circumference and body mass index. We estim

SUBMITTER: Su J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10017485 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature