Heart-healthy lifestyle linked to a longer life, free of chronic health conditions
Research Highlights:Two studies found that adults who live a heart-healthy lifestyle ? and who scored higher when measured by the American Heart Association?s Life?s Essential 8 cardiovascular health scoring ? tend to live longer and in optimal health compared to those with low cardiovascular health scores.One study found that adults with higher cardiovascular health lived more of their lives without chronic disease compared to adults who had poor cardiovascular health.The second study found that adults with higher Life?s Essential 8 scores gained an estimated 8.1 years of life expectancy at age 50 compared to peers with lower scores. Two new studies by related research groups have found that adults who live a heart-healthy lifestyle, as measured by the American Heart Association?s Life?s Essential 8 (LE8) cardiovascular health scoring, tend to live longer lives free of chronic disease. The preliminary studies will be presented at the American Heart Association?s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2023, held in Boston, February 28-March 3, 2023. The meeting offers the latest science on population-based health and wellness and implications for lifestyle and cardiometabolic health. In June 2022, the American Heart Association updated the metrics for optimal cardiovascular health to include sleep - Life?s Essential 8. The tool measures 4 indicators related to cardiovascular and metabolic health status...
