A lifestyle pattern during adolescence is associated with cardiovascular risk markers in young adults: results from the DONALD cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Lifestyle score approaches combining individual lifestyle factors, e.g. favourable diet, physical activity or normal body weight, showed inverse associations with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. However, research mainly focussed on adult behaviour and is scarce for vulnerable time windows for adult health like adolescence. We investigated associations between an adolescent lifestyle score and CVD risk markers in young adulthood. Overall, we analysed 270 participants of the open DONALD cohort study with 1-6 complete measurements of five lifestyle factors (healthy diet, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep duration and BMI standard deviation score) during adolescence (females: 8⋅5-15⋅5 years and males: 9⋅5-16⋅5 years). Multivariable linear regression models w

SUBMITTER: Schnermann ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8532054 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature