Cardiovascular Health Promotion for Prevention of CVD

Life expectancy in the US stalled in 2010 and has declined since 2014. After decades of increases in life expectancy, this concerning shift has been attributed, in part, to increasing rates of midlife cardiovascular mortality among adults aged 35 to 64 years. Concurrently, prevalence of underlying cardiometabolic risk factors has increased, including obesity and diabetes, and control of hypertension has declined. These unfavorable trends have also been observed among youth and younger adults. Thus, the need to reemphasize health promotion for successful cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention beginning earlier in the life course is an important focus of research and health policy and is likely the only way that the US can reverse the trend in life expectancy.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research