State of the Nation's Cardiovascular Health and Targeting Health Equity in the United States: A Narrative Review.

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Importance

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US. The burden of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality disproportionately affects racial/ethnic minority groups, who now compose almost 40% of the US population in aggregate. As part of the 2010 American Heart Association (AHA) Strategic Impact Goal, the AHA established 7 cardiovascular health (CVH) metrics (also known as Life's Simple 7) with the goal to improve the CVH of all individuals in the US by 20% by 2020. National estimates of CVH are important to track and monitor at the population level but may mask important differences across and within racial/ethnic minority groups. It is critical to understand how CVH may differ between racial/ethnic minority groups and consider how these differences in

SUBMITTER: Diaz CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8897827 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature