Cardiovascular health and the modifiable burden of incident myocardial infarction: The Tromsø Study

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Wilsgaard, Tom, Loehr, Laura R., Mathiesen, Ellisiv B., Loechen, Maja-Lisa, Bonaa, Kaare Harald, Njolstad, Inger and Heiss, Gerardo. (2015). Cardiovascular health and the modifiable burden of incident myocardial infarction: The Tromsø Study. BMC Public Health. 15(221), pp. 1 - 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1573-0
AuthorsWilsgaard, Tom, Loehr, Laura R., Mathiesen, Ellisiv B., Loechen, Maja-Lisa, Bonaa, Kaare Harald, Njolstad, Inger and Heiss, Gerardo
Abstract

Background: The American Heart Association has proposed an impact goal for the year 2020 to improve cardiovascular health by 20%. The objectives of the study were to assess the association between the proposed cardiovascular health metric score and incident myocardial infarction ( MI ) and to estimate the generalized impact fraction ( GIF ). Methods: The health metric score was derived from ideal levels of six cardiovascular risk factors from the population-based Tromsø Study of 22,121 residents of Tromsø, Norway aged 30 to 79 years, examined in 1994–95, 2001, and 2007–08. Incident events of MI were recorded from the date of enrollment in 1994–95 to the end of 2010. Adjudication of hospitalized and out-of hospital events was performed by an independent endpoints committee based on data from hospital and out-of hospital journals, autopsy records and death certificates. Cox proportional hazard regression was used to estimate hazard ratios ( HR ). GIF was calculated from age stratified analysis using a case-load weighted-sum method. Bootstrapping was used to estimate 95% simulation intervals. Results: A total of 1652 MIs accrued over an average of 14.7 person-years of follow-up. Few men ( 0.96% ) and women ( 3.6% ) had ideal levels in all 6 metrics. 64.7% ( men ) and 55.7% ( women ) had ideal levels in 2 or 3 metrics. The age-adjusted HR per point increase in health score was 0.65 ( 95% confidence interval: 0.61, 0.70 ) in men and 0.59 ( 0.54, 0.64 ) in women. A shift of 30% of subjects from low score levels ≤3 to scores ≥4 was estimated to prevent 13.7% ( 11.2, 16.2 ) of incident MI in men and 15.9% ( 12.1, 19.4 ) in women. Conclusions: The association between the health metric score and MI indicate that close to 15% of incident MIs could be prevented by attainable and realistic improvements in the health metrics.

Keywordscoronary heart disease; cohort studies; lifestyle; longitudinal studies; prevention
Year2015
JournalBMC Public Health
Journal citation15 (221), pp. 1 - 8
PublisherBiomed Central Ltd
ISSN1471-2458
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1573-0
Scopus EID2-s2.0-84928716878
Open accessOpen access
Page range1 - 8
Research GroupMary MacKillop Institute for Health Research
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© 2015 Wilsgaard et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

Place of publicationUnited Kingdom
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