Racial Differences in Maintaining Optimal Health Behaviors Into Middle Age.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Earlier development of cardiovascular disease risk factors in blacks versus whites may result from differences in maintaining health behaviors. Age-specific racial differences in maintaining health behaviors from ages 18 to 50 years were determined.

Methods

In 1985-1986, the population-based Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study enrolled 5,115 participants aged 18-30 years. In 2017, a total of 2,485 blacks and 2,407 whites with one or more optimal health behaviors at baseline who attended one or more of seven follow-up exams over 25 years (i.e., through 2010-2011) were analyzed. The primary outcome, maintaining four or more optimal health behaviors, included BMI <25; never smoking; ≥150 minutes/week of moderate to vigorous physical activity; no/

SUBMITTER: Booth JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6383802 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature