Application of a Lifestyle-Based Tool to Estimate Premature Cardiovascular Disease Events in Young Adults: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Few tools exist for assessing the risk for early atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events in young adults.

Objective

To assess the performance of the Healthy Heart Score (HHS), a lifestyle-based tool that estimates ASCVD events in older adults, for ASCVD events occurring before 55 years of age.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective cohort study included 4893 US adults aged 18 to 30 years from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Participants underwent measurement of lifestyle factors from March 25, 1985, through June 7, 1986, and were followed up for a median of 27.1 years (interquartile range, 26.9-27.2 years). Data for this study were analyzed from February 24 through December 12, 2016.

Exposure

SUBMITTER: Gooding HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710563 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature