Change in Life's Simple 7 Measure of Cardiovascular Health After Incident Stroke: The REGARDS Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Life's Simple 7 (LS7) is a metric for cardiovascular health based on the 7 domains of smoking, diet, physical activity, body mass index, blood pressure, total cholesterol, and fasting glucose. Because they may be targeted for secondary prevention purposes, we hypothesized that stroke survivors would experience improvement in LS7 score over time compared with people who did not experience a stroke. We addressed this hypothesis in the REGARDS study (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) cohort of Black and White adults enrolled between 2003 and 2007.

Methods

Participants who had LS7 data at baseline, were stroke-free at baseline, had a 10-year follow-up visit, and either did not have a stroke or had an ischemic stroke >1 year before fo

SUBMITTER: Liu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902464 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature