TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding and Improving Cardiovascular Health
T2 - An Update on the American Heart Association's Concept of Cardiovascular Health
AU - Shay, Christina M.
AU - Gooding, Holly S.
AU - Murillo, Rosenda
AU - Foraker, Randi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - The American Heart Association's 2020 Strategic Impact Goal is ". By 2020, to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20% while reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20%." To monitor progress towards this goal, a new construct "ideal cardiovascular health" (iCVH) was defined that includes the simultaneous presence of optimal levels of seven health behaviors (physical activity, smoking, dietary intake, and body mass index) and factors (total cholesterol, blood pressure and fasting blood glucose). In this review, we present a summary of major concepts related to the concept of iCVH and an update of the literature in this area since publication of the 2020 Strategic Impact Goal, including trends in iCVH prevalence, new determinants and outcomes related to iCVH, strategies for maintaining or improving iCVH, policy implications of the iCVH model, and the remaining challenges to reaching the 2020 Strategic Impact Goal.
AB - The American Heart Association's 2020 Strategic Impact Goal is ". By 2020, to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20% while reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20%." To monitor progress towards this goal, a new construct "ideal cardiovascular health" (iCVH) was defined that includes the simultaneous presence of optimal levels of seven health behaviors (physical activity, smoking, dietary intake, and body mass index) and factors (total cholesterol, blood pressure and fasting blood glucose). In this review, we present a summary of major concepts related to the concept of iCVH and an update of the literature in this area since publication of the 2020 Strategic Impact Goal, including trends in iCVH prevalence, new determinants and outcomes related to iCVH, strategies for maintaining or improving iCVH, policy implications of the iCVH model, and the remaining challenges to reaching the 2020 Strategic Impact Goal.
KW - Adults
KW - Cardiovascular health
KW - Children
KW - Prevention
KW - Risk factors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937628110&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pcad.2015.05.003
DO - 10.1016/j.pcad.2015.05.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 25958016
AN - SCOPUS:84937628110
SN - 0033-0620
VL - 58
SP - 41
EP - 49
JO - Progress in cardiovascular diseases
JF - Progress in cardiovascular diseases
IS - 1
ER -