Twenty-year trends in cardiovascular risk among men and women in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Relative to men, women have experienced slower improvement in mortality in the US in recent decades.

Aims

We investigated 20-year trends in cardiovascular risk for men and women age 40 and over in the US to determine whether there was differential change in risk for men and women.

Methods

Using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), we estimated total cardiovascular risk, the prevalence of individual risk factors, and potential factors contributing to change in risk.

Results

Men showed steady reductions in cardiovascular risk over the 20 years; women experienced increased risk from 1990 to 2000, but decreased risk from 2000 to 2010. Sex differences in cardiovascular risk changed so that there was no significant difference by s

SUBMITTER: Kim JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6151160 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature