Cardiovascular health decline in adolescent girls in the NGHS cohort, 1987-1997.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a critical time for the preservation or loss of cardiovascular health. We aimed to describe trajectories of cardiovascular health in adolescent girls and identify early adolescent factors associated with cardiovascular health in young adulthood. We used data from the National Growth and Health Study, a longitudinal cohort of 2,379 girls followed annually from ages 9-19 years. We classified participants as having ideal, intermediate, or poor levels of the seven cardiovascular health metrics at four developmental stages: early (ages 9-11), middle (ages 12-14), and late (ages 15-17) adolescence, and early young adulthood (ages ≥ 18). We calculated total cardiovascular health scores (range 0-14) at each stage and empirically identified patterns of cardiovascular health trajector

SUBMITTER: Gooding HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7736975 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature