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Ideal Cardiovascular Health Is Inversely Associated With Incident Cancer
Author(s) -
Laura J. RasmussenTorvik,
Christina M. Shay,
Judith G. Abramson,
Christopher A. Friedrich,
Jennifer A. Nettleton,
Anna E. Prizment,
Aaron R. Folsom
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.112.001183
Subject(s) - medicine , ideal (ethics) , cardiovascular health , cancer , disease , philosophy , epistemology
The American Heart Association (AHA) has defined the concept of ideal cardiovascular health in promotion of the 2020 Strategic Impact Goals. We examined whether adherence to ideal levels of the 7 AHA cardiovascular health metrics was associated with incident cancers in the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) study over 17 to 19 years of follow-up.

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