Life's essential 8
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Introduction
8 measures achievable measures to reduced cardiovascular (CV) risk.
- normal blood pressure
- normal lipid panel
- normal blood glucose
- normal body weight, normal BMI
- adequate physical activity
- healthy diet
- non smoking
- sleep health*
* sleeping 7-9 hours/night gets full 100 points (see below)
* new addition from Life's simple 7
Interpretation
- scored on a 100-point scale[1]
- 8 domains scored from 0 (least optimized) to 100 (most optimized)
- more generous scoring for Mediterranean diet & DASH diet
- scores < 50 = low CV health, 50-79 = moderate CV health, 80-100 = high CV health
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lloyd-Jones DM et al Life's Essential 8: Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association's Construct of Cardiovascular Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2022. June 29 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35766027 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001078
- ↑ Lloyd-Jones DM, et al Status of cardiovascular health in US adults and children using the American Heart Association's new 'Life's Essential 8' metrics: prevalence estimates from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2013-2018. Circulation 2022. June 29 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35766033 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.060911