Twenty‐Year Trends in the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Health Score and Impact on Subclinical and Clinical Cardiovascular Disease: The Framingham Offspring Study

Danielle M. Enserro ¹

R S Vasan ^{2, 3, 4}

Vanessa Xanthakis ^{1, 3, 4}

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Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA |

Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA |

Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA |

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Sections of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, and Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2018-05-17

Wiley

Journal: Journal of the American Heart Association

scimago Q1

SJR: 2.126

CiteScore: 9.4

Impact factor: 5

ISSN: 20479980

DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.118.008741

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Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Abstract

Background

Data on the temporal trends in ideal cardiovascular health ( CVH ) as well as on their association with subclinical/overt cardiovascular disease ( CVD ) and death are limited.

Methods and Results

This study included 3460 participants attending ≥1 of 4 consecutive exams of the Framingham Heart Study (1991–2008, mean age 55.4 years, CVH score ranged 0–14). We created 4 groups describing changes in CVH score between examination cycles 5 and 8, using first and last exams attended (high‐high: starting CVH score ≥8, last score of ≥8, referent; high‐low: ≥8 start and ≤7 last; low‐high: ≤7 start and ≥8 last; and low‐low: ≤7 start and ≤7 last) and related them to subclinical CVD cross‐sectionally, and incident CVD and death. Fewer people have ideal CVH scores over the past 20 years (8.5% for 1991–1995, 5.9% for 2005–2008, P =0.002), because of decreases in those with ideal status of body mass index, blood glucose, and serum cholesterol levels ( P <0.05 for all). The odds of subclinical disease and risk of CVD and death were higher for all compared with the high‐high group (428 CVD and 367 death events, median follow‐up 5.1 years, hazard ratios for CVD : 1.39, 1.73, 1.9 and death: 1.12, 1.57, 1.4 and odds ratios for subclinical disease: 1.61, 1.98, 2.86 for high‐low, low‐high, and low‐low, respectively).

Conclusions

The decreased presence of ideal CVH scores over the past 20 years resulted in increasing odds of subclinical disease and risk of CVD and death, emphasizing the importance of maintaining ideal CVH over the life course.

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