Healthy habits increase the overall health of the body and longevity

People who had more healthy habits and factors, evaluated by simple 7 ™ American Heart Association indicators for the ideal cardiovascular health, had more positive benefits for the health of the whole body, in accordance with the review of research published today in The, Otchen-Access, a reviewed American Heart Association daily.

Life’s Simple 7 was launched by the American Heart Association in 2010 to define and quantitatively determine the spectrum of heart health based on seven lifestyle and health measures: not smoking, healthy eating, regular physical activity, healthy weight and normal blood levels, cholesterol and blood sugar levels. In 2022, the indicators were improved so that they include enough sleep and a more detailed point. The updated cardiovascular health indicator is now called Life’s Essential 8 ™.

While the cardiovascular benefits of optimal cardiovascular health in terms of simple 7 life were already well established, this is the first systematic review that analyzes the benefits of organs outside of heart and death due to cardiovascular disease and other causes, according to the authors of the research.

A few years ago we learned that heart health and brain health are very closely related. Thanks to this review, we found that almost every organs and bodily function also benefit from maintaining a healthy lifestyle in a straight 7. We were surprised when we found that Life’s Simple 7 at optimal levels affected every aspect of health, from head to toe. It goes much beyond the cardiovascular health to cover the health of the whole body. “

Dr. Liliana Aguayo, MPH, main author of the study, assistant of research assistant at NELL Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Global Diabetes Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta

Scientists reviewed almost 500 scientific research published in the decade after the introduction of a simple 7 life, which included at least three simple 7 measures of life. Ideal cardiovascular health was defined as having six or seven high -level indicators.

Among the findings:

• Ideal cardiovascular health results were consistently associated with the benefits of many body systems from head to toe and from youth to old age.
• Numerous studies have shown that people with a simple 7 high -life results compared to people with low results more often maintained the function of the brain and lungs, vision and hearing, retained the strength of teeth and muscles as aging. Several studies have lower frequencies of several chronic diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, diabetes and kidney disease among people with simple 7 results of high life.
• According to several studies, ideal cardiovascular health caused a low indicator of cardiovascular disease in the long-term period, as well as economic savings at the level of lower health care costs.
• Other studies suggest that even people with a higher genetic risk of heart disease can reduce the risk of cardiovascular events by maintaining the perfect levels of at least three simple life indicators.
• Earlier studies have shown that better cardiovascular health at a younger age is associated with a lower risk of later diseases and cardiovascular deaths and better quality of life, even among people aged 85 and older.
• One study showed that teens were almost 8 times less likely that they had poor cardiovascular health when their mothers had better cardiovascular health during pregnancy, which suggests that preventing cardiovascular diseases may start even before conception.
• Up to 4% of people around the world have perfect cardiovascular health (7-meter at ideal levels). Even at a young age, the dissemination of ideal cardiovascular health is very low.

“These discoveries confirm that healthy lifestyle indicators – good nutrition, exercise and not smoking – are the key ingredients in optimal health, in addition to maintaining healthy weight, normal blood pressure and blood sugar levels, cholesterol, which are conventional risk factors for cardiovascular disease,” said Aguayo.

“Perfect for cardiovascular health health in Life’s Simple 7 and Now Life’s Essential 8 are based on extensive scientific studies that recognize most of the heart and stroke diseases, you can prevent,” said Stacey E. Rosen, MD, FAHA, Volunteer American Heart Association and senior chairman of women and executive director katz institut for Women’s Health of Northwell in New York. “The results in this review indicate that these healthy lifestyle indicators are also a way to improve health and well-being around the world, from head to toe. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases and reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases, Centerpiecesesse Essential 8 Life’s Essential 8, they are the core of the American heart for the world, healthier life. “

The results of the review are limited due to the Life Simple 7 scoring system, which assesses each category essentially as ideal, intermediate or poor and is less precise than possible, according to Aguayo, the methods of the necessary 8 life. Since this study is based on published literature, it may not represent research with negative or ambiguous findings, scientists say.

Researchers called for further research, especially among children, pregnant women and population in less studied areas of the world. Further research is also needed for both the benefits of even small improvements in these health indicators and mechanisms that are the paths between the simple life of 7 or the necessary 8 life and better health.

Study details, background and design:

• Scientists checked 4624 published research manuscripts, which quoted the original article presenting a simple 7 or mentioned a few simple 7 factors of life for optimal cardiovascular health. Among them, they identified 483 original tests that met the test criteria, including low risk of bias, as a review set.
• Summaries of conferences, publications in magazines not supported by Peer, publications in languages other than English and publications focused on a specific state, such as metabolic team, were excluded from the final review group.
• The research was reviewed by research published between January 2010 and the style of 2021.

This review was partly financed by a strategically targeted grant of research networks from the American Heart Association, as well as a subsidy from the National Institutes of Health. The content is only the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the American Heart Association.