2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Report of
the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical …

Importance According to National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, 52% of
surveyed US adults reported using at least 1 dietary supplement in the prior 30 days and …

Importance Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in the US,
accounting for more than 1 in 4 deaths. Each year, an estimated 605 000 people in the US …

Importance Hypertension is a prevalent condition that affects approximately 45% of the adult
US population and is the most commonly diagnosed condition at outpatient office visits …

Importance Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. The prevalence of
AF increases with age, from less than 0.2% in adults younger than 55 years to about 10% in …

Longer human lives have led to a global burden of late-life disease. However, some older
people experience little ill health, a trait that should be extended to the general population …

Initial expectations for genome-wide association studies were high, as such studies
promised to rapidly transform personalized medicine with individualized disease risk …

Background To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income
and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and …

Importance More than 35% of men and 40% of women in the United States are obese.
Obesity is associated with health problems such as increased risk for coronary heart …

Importance Based on year 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts,
approximately 17% of children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years in the United States …