Life’s Simple 7 and Incidence of Diabetes Among American Indians: The Strong Heart Family Study

Minority Diabetes Reports Thursday, August 7th, 2014

Diabetes Care August 2014

OBJECTIVE The American Heart Association’s recommendations for optimal health, summarized in Life’s Simple 7, have been associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related end points, but no studies have examined the association of these goals with incident type 2 diabetes, which is associated with high risk for CVD. The purpose of this analysis was to examine the associations of Life’s Simple 7 goals with incident diabetes among American Indians, a population at high risk of cardiometabolic diseases. Read more

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