Low Risk-Factor Profile and Long-term Cardiovascular and Noncardiovascular Mortality and Life Expectancy: Findings for 5 Large Cohorts of Young Adult and Middle-Aged Men and Women
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People who have normal blood cholesterol levels, normal blood pressure, don't smoke and have no history of diabetes or heart disease have much lower death rates from cardiovascular disease than people who have these risk factors. Researchers analyzed death rates in 366,559 people participating in two large studies of heart disease. Fewer than 10% had no risk factors for heart disease. However, death rates from cardiovascular disease in these people were about half what they were in people who had one or more risk factors. Life expectancy was 6 years longer in women and 10 years longer in men.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1999
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Relationship of Baseline Serum Cholesterol Levels in 3 Large Cohorts of Younger Men to Long-term Coronary, Cardiovascular, and All-Cause Mortality and to Longevity
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Even young men with elevated blood cholesterol levels have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. This was the conclusion of researchers who followed 11,017 men in the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry, 1,266 men in the Peoples Gas Company Study, and 69,205 men in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. All men were 39 years old or younger at the start of these three studies. Years of follow-up ranged from 16 to 34 years. Men with cholesterol levels of 240 or greater had twice to four times the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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Favorable cardiovascular risk profile in young women and long-term risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality
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The relationship of baseline coronary risk factor status to mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD), cardiovascular disease (CVDs), and all causes in young women are assessed. It was found that for women with favorable levels for all five major risk factors at younger ages, CHD and CVD were rare while long-termed and caused mortality much lower compared with others.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2004
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