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American Heart Association adds sleep to cardiovascular health checklist

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Advisory Highlights:

  • American Heart Association’s checklist to measure cardiovascular health is updated, now called Life’s Essential 8™, adding healthy sleep as essential for optimal cardiovascular health.

  • Other health and lifestyle factors in the checklist, which were part of the previous, 7-item scoring tool, are nicotine exposure, physical activity, diet, weight, blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure.  

  • The new sleep metric suggests 7-9 hours of sleep daily for optimal cardiovascular health for adults, and more for children depending on age.

  • The updated scoring can now be used for people ages 2 and older, and four components are measured in new ways: a new guide to assess diet; nicotine exposure replaces cigarette smoking to include electronic cigarettes (vaping) and exposure to secondhand smoke; non-HDL cholesterol is suggested instead of total cholesterol; and the blood sugar measure is expanded to include hemoglobin A1c levels.

  • Life’s Essential 8™ is assessed by the online My Life Check tool, which has an updated scoring system to give users a score of up to 100 points based on an average of scores for each health and lifestyle factor.

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DALLAS, June 29, 2022 — Sleep duration is now considered an essential component for ideal heart and brain health. Life’s Essential 8™ cardiovascular health score replaces Life’s Simple 7™, according to a new Presidential Advisory, Life’s Essential 8—Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association’s Construct on Cardiovascular Health, published today in Circulation, the Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal.

Other updates to the measures of optimal cardiovascular health, now for anyone ages 2 and older, include a new guide to assess diet; accounting for exposure to secondhand smoke and vaping; using non-HDL cholesterol instead of total cholesterol to

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Life-style changes can stop 80% of cardiovascular deaths, UT Well being SA health practitioner suggests

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SAN ANTONIO – February is American Coronary heart Month. Throughout this time, it is essential to realize, avoid and treat coronary heart disease, which is the primary bring about of demise throughout our region.

The CDC states coronary heart ailment refers to several varieties of coronary heart disorders. You can tremendously minimize your danger for heart disorder as a result of way of living variations.

Dr. Dawn Hui, cardiac surgeon at UT Wellbeing San Antonio, joined Primary SA to converse about the disorder and what life style behavior can aid avoid it.

“The initial thing to know about heart condition is that it is the main trigger of death in the United States, and that is accurate for equally adult males and women of all ages. Coronary heart condition is a general term for any ailment that has an effect on the purpose or the construction of the heart, and most people are familiar with the most frequent variety of coronary heart disorder — coronary heart condition, which is what causes heart attacks. Individuals who are extra inclined to have coronary heart disease are these who have diabetic issues, substantial blood force, use tobacco, or who have a strong family background of heart disease. But we know that heart disease can impact people that don’t have any of individuals threat elements,” Dr. Hui mentioned.

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Coronary heart disease has been a challenge for San Antonio and the United States traditionally, and the pandemic didn’t assist, Dr. Hui explained.

“What we’ve found in the previous two decades is that pandemic-similar alterations in way of life have caused lots of of us to become extra sedentary, myself incorporated. Pursuits like conferences, courses, interviews like this that made use of to be in-particular person are now on the web, so men and women

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Life-style interventions for preschool young children can improve lengthy-term cardiovascular health position

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Employing university-primarily based plans aimed at training nutritious cardiovascular health and fitness behaviors as early as preschool can realize lasting life style variations in little ones, according to a evaluate revealed currently in the Journal of the American University of Cardiology.

Preceding research have discovered that unhealthy way of living behaviors these as a nutritionally very poor diet program, sedentary life style and using tobacco, all of which contribute to cardiovascular ailment possibility, are widespread among small children and adolescents. More exploration has also located a marriage among inadequate cardiovascular overall health in childhood and very poor cardiometabolic health and fitness in grownups.

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The SI! Plan (Salud Integral – Thorough Wellbeing) was formulated as a multilevel and multicomponent faculty-based mostly application for the advertising of cardiovascular well being and attaining long lasting way of life improvements in kids from preschool age. It was carried out in three international locations from calendar year 2009 onwards.”

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Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, normal director at Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), director of Mount Sinai Coronary heart and principal investigator of the undertaking

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“The college ecosystem is a good area to introduce way of living interventions, for the reason that little ones are paying out so a lot of their time there,” stated Rodrigo Fernández-Jiménez, MD, PhD, team leader of the cardiovascular health and fitness and imaging lab at CNIC and creator on the examine. “There are certain instances in a child’s daily life when advancements can be designed to enrich extended-expression cardiovascular overall health position. Our overview, and former research, counsel that 4-5 yrs of age is the most favorable time to start out a faculty-centered intervention concentrated on wholesome practices.”

The authors reviewed the 10-calendar year effects of the SI! System, which provided extra than 3,800 young

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