Table 2.

Association of Life’s Simple 7 with incident HF.

	Model 1 HR	95% CI		p value	Model 2 HR	95% CI		p value
Simple 7 score 0–2	referent	referent		referent	referent	referent		referent
Simple 7 score 3	0.53	(0.39,	0.73)	<0.0001	0.52	(0.36,	0.74)	0.0003
Simple 7 score 4–6	0.39	(0.24,	0.64)	0.0002	0.42	(0.24,	0.72)	0.002
Number of participants	3858			3749
Number of events	239				185

Model 1 is adjusted for age and sex. Model 2 excludes adjudicated incident MI and fatal CHD at any time in JHS and is adjusted for age and sex. Incident HF was defined as self-reported HF hospitalizations (before 1/1/2005) and formally adjudicated HF (after 1/1/2005). Abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; HR = hazard ratio; HF = heart failure.