Read more about how better heart health brings lower stroke risk:
The risk of incident stroke was significantly lower for individuals who had average or optimum cardiovascular health compared with those who had poor cardiovascular health based on the organizations' Life's Simple 7 (LS7) score, which incorporates three health factors and four lifestyle factors, according to Ambar Kulshreshtha, MD, MPH, of Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues.
"Our study supports this idea that making small changes in lifestyle can have a huge impact in reducing stroke burden," Kulshreshtha said in an interview, adding, however, that it remains to be tested which multidisciplinary interventions will work at the population level to reduce the burden of stroke.
The AHA/ASA released the framework that would become Life's Simple 7 in 2010. The score incorporates information on blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, body mass index, smoking, physical activity, and diet to provide an assessment of cardiovascular health.
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