Healthy lifestyle factors and incident heart disease and mortality in candidates for primary prevention with statin therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are limited data on the use of healthy lifestyles among adults who are candidates for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) with statin therapy due to a 10-year predicted risk ≥7.5%. We determined the prevalence of healthy lifestyle factors and their association with incident ASCVD and all-cause mortality in the Reason for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study participants (n=5709).

Methods

Lifestyle factors (non-obese waist circumference, physical activity ≥5 times-per-week, non-smoking, low saturated-fat-intake, highest Mediterranean diet score quartile) were assessed during an in-home examination and interviewer-administered questionnaires. Adjudicated incident ASCVD (nonfatal/fatal stroke, nonfatal myocardial in

SUBMITTER: Booth JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6311703 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature