Assessment of the American Heart Association's “Life's simple 7” score in French-speaking adults from Québec

The “Life's Simple 7” (LS7) metrics were developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) to assess and promote cardiovascular health in the American population. The purpose of this study was to assess the overall cardiovascular health of French-speaking adults from the Province of Quebec usin...

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Published in:Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases, 2019-07, Vol.29 (7), p.684-691
Main Authors: Harrison, S., Couillard, C., Robitaille, J., Vohl, M.-C., Bélanger, M., Desroches, S., Provencher, V., Rabasa-Lhoret, R., Bouchard, L., Langlois, M.-F., Houle, J., Lemieux, S., Lamarche, B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
American Heart Association
Biomarkers - blood
Blood Glucose - analysis
Blood Pressure
Body Mass Index
Cardiovascular Diseases - diagnosis
Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases - prevention & control
Cardiovascular health
Cholesterol - blood
Cross-Sectional Studies
Epidemiology
Exercise
Female
Health Status
Health Status Indicators
Healthy Lifestyle
Humans
Language
Life's simple 7
Male
Middle Aged
Prevalence
Primary Prevention
Protective Factors
Quebec - epidemiology
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Risk Reduction Behavior
Smoking Cessation
United States
Young Adult
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Summary:The “Life's Simple 7” (LS7) metrics were developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) to assess and promote cardiovascular health in the American population. The purpose of this study was to assess the overall cardiovascular health of French-speaking adults from the Province of Quebec using the LS7 score. A total of 777 age and sex-representative participants of five different administrative regions in the Province of Quebec (387 men and 390 women; mean age ± SEM: 41.9 ± 0.1 years) were included in these analyses. Metrics of the LS7 score (smoking, physical activity, diet, body mass index, blood pressure, fasting total cholesterol and blood glucose) were analysed to generate a final score ranging from 0 to 7. Only 0.5% of participants met all criteria for ideal cardiovascular health. The diet metric showed the lowest prevalence of “ideal” scores (4.8%) whereas not smoking was the metric with the highest prevalence (88.1%). Women had a higher LS7 score than men, while age and education level (negative and positive association, respectively; p 
ISSN:0939-4753
1590-3729
DOI:10.1016/j.numecd.2019.03.006