The study was published online November 14, 2014 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Despite being one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the U.S. and globally, almost all CVD is preventable. Adults who remain free of clinical CVD risk factors when they are middle-aged have an extremely low risk of developing the disease for the rest of their life.
The model was developed using health data from 61,025 women in theNurses’ Health Study and 34,478 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, who were free of chronic disease in 1986 and followed for up to 24 years. During the study period, there were 3,775 cases of CVD (including nonfatal myocardial infarction, fatal coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke) in women and 3,506 cases in men.
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