Mixed
Higher levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP), serum total cholesterol (TC), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), and body mass index (BMI) are robustly associated with increased relative risks of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes, with proportional effects declining as age increases.
Monitor your blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, and weight regularly. The risk these factors pose to your heart and metabolic health is real and quantifiable. While the relative impact of each unit of risk decreases as you age, the absolute risk of events remains high, making management crucial at all adult ages. Prioritize keeping these metrics within healthy ranges through lifestyle and medical guidance as needed.
Each metabolic risk factor was robustly related to CVD... For all risk factors, proportional effects declined with age, were generally consistent by sex, and differed by region in only a few age groups for certain risk factor-disease pairs.
Why this rating
The study pools data from 123 cohorts involving 1.4 million individuals and 52,000 CVD events, providing high statistical power and precision.
Source
The Age-Specific Quantitative Effects of Metabolic Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes: A Pooled Analysis
Gitanjali M Singh et al. · PLoS ONE · 2013
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