Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Failure-Free Survival: The Cardiovascular Disease Lifetime Risk Pooling Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study was designed to quantify the relationship between the absence of heart failure risk factors in middle age and incident heart failure, heart failure-free survival, and overall survival.

Background

Quantification of years lived free from heart failure in the context of risk factor burden in mid-life may improve risk communication and prevention efforts.

Methods

We conducted a pooled, individual-level analysis sampling from communities across the United States as part of 4 cohort studies: the Framingham Heart, Framingham Offspring, Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry, and ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) studies. Participants with and without hypertension (blood pressure ≥140/90 mm Hg or treatment), obesity (body mass i

SUBMITTER: Ahmad FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5582802 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature