Adopting a healthy lifestyle by young people seems to have an impact on her health heart them even many years later, as found by a new study Researchers at the University of Boston Medical School, published in the journal “Jama Network Open”.
Despite the progress of the last decades to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD), they remain The main cause of death in the US and worldwide. In fact, the last ten years have been slowing down and reversing the reduction of morbidity and mortality by CVD and these trends can worsen even further than the dominance of reduced heart health, especially in young adults.
In 2022, the American Cardiology Society created the concept of Life’s Essential 8 (Le8) as a way to evaluate people the current health of their heart and find ways to improve it measurable Making simple changes to their lifestyle: better nutrition, more activity, smoking cessation, healthy sleep, weight management, cholesterol control and blood sugar and blood pressure management.
The Boston University research team examined the Le8 of the Le8 thousand young adults 18 years of age or olderwho participated in the study “Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults/Cardia”.
So he observed that these patterns of healthy lifestyle and their maintenance were related to cardiovascular health The next 20 years.
In fact, it was found that People whose Le8 scores were always high had a very low risk for heart attacks and strokes later.
People who began with only moderate heart health and maintained it over time had twice as much risk, while people who passed from medium to low heart health over time had a ten times higher risk for heart attacks and strokes.