Table 2. Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Behaviors of 10 728 Individual Participants at Baseline.
Factor | CV risk factors and behaviors categories | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor | Intermediate | Ideal | |||||
Criteria | % | Criteria | % | Criteria | % | ||
Smoking status | Current | 9.5 | Former | 17.0 | Never | 73.4 | |
BMI | ≥30 | 29.5 | 25-29.9 | 37.1 | <25 | 33.4 | |
Physical activity, min/wk | 0 | 26.1 | 1-149 | 42.6 | ≥150 | 31.3 | |
Healthy diet scorea | ≤2 | 21.3 | 3-5 | 75.0 | ≥6 | 3.7 | |
Total cholesterol, mg/dL | ≥240 | 9.1 | 200-239 | 36.8 | <200b | 54.2 | |
Blood pressure, mm Hg | SBP ≥140 or DBP ≥90 | 16.3 | SBP 120-139 or DBP 80-89 | 47.1 | SBP <120 and DBP <80b | 36.6 | |
Fasting glucose, mg/dL | ≥126 | 5.9 | 100-125 | 20.2 | <100b | 74.0 | |
CV health scorec | ≤7 | 26.7 | 8-11 | 61.3 | >11 | 12.1 |
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); CV, cardiovascular; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure.
SI conversion factors: To convert total cholesterol to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.0259; glucose to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.0555.
Sum of scores for servings per day of the following: fruits and vegetables (score of 0 for 0-1 servings, 1 for 2-3, 2 for ≥4), high-fiber foods (score of 0 for 0-1 servings, 1 for 2-4, 2 for ≥5), and high-fat foods (score of 0 for ≥4 servings, 1 for 2-3, 2 for 0-1).
Without medications. Those with medications were considered intermediate.
Global cardiovascular health score ranged from 1 to 14.