Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2015 Oct 29;4(11):e002048. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.115.002048

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2015 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley Blackwell.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

PMC Copyright notice

Hazards ratios (95% CI) for loss of the ideal cardiovascular health profile over 25 years of follow‐up according to combinations of optimal healthy lifestyle components present in young adulthood at age 18 to 30 years. Hazard ratios are adjusted for age, sex, race, education, study center, diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, and fasting glucose at time of enrollment. Referent group is those without any healthy lifestyle components at baseline. BMI indicates body mass index; PA, physical activity.