Life’s Simple 7 and Risk of Incident Stroke
Author(s) -
Ambar Kulshreshtha,
Viola Vaccarino,
Suzanne E. Judd,
Virginia J. Howard,
William M. McClellan,
Paul Muntner,
Yuling Hong,
Monika M. Safford,
Abhinav Goyal,
Mary Cushman
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.111.000352
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , confidence interval , hazard ratio , population , body mass index , demography , cohort , prospective cohort study , cohort study , socioeconomic status , gerontology , environmental health , mechanical engineering , sociology , engineering
The American Heart Association developed Life's Simple 7 (LS7) as a metric defining cardiovascular health. We investigated the association between LS7 and incident stroke in black and white Americans.
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