Addition of sleep metric in updated Life’s Essential 8 predicts CVD incidence

The incorporation of sleep as a CV health metric, as recently done with the American Heart Association’s updated Life’s Essential 8 risk calculator, may enhance CVD primordial and primary prevention efforts, data show.

“In our study, even a CV health score that includes only sleep duration, the most widely measured aspect of sleep health and the most feasible measure to obtain in a clinic or public health setting, predicted CVD incidence,” Nour Makarem, PhD, MS, assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, said in a press release. Read more in Healio.