Association of the "life's crucial 9" cardiovascular health with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality: a national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2022, the American Heart Association launched an updated algorithm for quantifying cardiovascular health (CVH), termed Life's Essential 8 (LE8). This new approach has been shown to be associated with various noncommunicable chronic diseases and mortality. However, LE8 did not take into consideration the importance of psychological health on CVH. Recently, a perspective article proposed Life's Crucial 9 (LC9), which would add psychological health as another component to LE8, as a novel metric to assess CVH. This study aims to investigate the association of LC9 with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality.

Methods

This study included 23,080 adults from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2018, and mortality was ascertained by linkag

SUBMITTER: Tu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12036266 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature