Prenatal and Perinatal Factors of Life's Essential 8 Cardiovascular Health Trajectories.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The American Heart Association put forth the Life's Essential 8 construct to assess cardiovascular health (CVH) based on 8 biological and behavioral factors. Few studies have identified prenatal and perinatal factors of CVH trajectories across childhood and adolescence, life stages where disease precursors and health behaviors are established.

Objective

To examine associations of prenatal and perinatal factors with child CVH trajectory.

Design, setting, and participants

Data from the Project Viva prebirth cohort from April 1999 to August 2021 were used. Participant inclusion required 3 or more CVH metrics in early childhood (median [range] age, 3.2 [2.8-6.2] years) or 4 or more in midchildhood (median [range] age, 7.7 [6.6-10.9] years), early adolescence (m

SUBMITTER: Aris IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12042050 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature