Healthy lifestyles and the incidence risk and time of carotid plaque: a nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between lifestyles and carotid plaque showed heterogeneity in results across studies, which may be limited by sample size or population characteristics. In addition, there is a lack of evidence on how long healthy lifestyles delay plaque development and on the metabolic factors which are likely to mediate these associations. This study aims to investigate the impact of multiple healthy lifestyles on the risk and time of carotid plaque incidence in the early stages of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), and to identify the metabolic factors mediating this association.

Methods

We analyzed data from 43,651 participants with moderate or high risk for CVD from the ChinaHEART cohort (2014-2021), excluding those with prior carotid plaque or CVD,

SUBMITTER: Lin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12261818 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature