SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1612056
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between cardiovascular health determined by life's essential 8 and risk of mortality and major non-communicable diseases
Provisionally accepted
- 1Shandong University, Jinan, China
- 2Jining Medical University, Jining, Shandong, China
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Objectives: This study aimed to explore the associations between cardiovascular health (CVH) and the risk of mortality and major non-communicable diseases by conducting a meta-analysis. Methods: Several databases including Pubmed, Embase, Web of science, Scopus were searched for studies exploring the prospective associations between ideal CVH and health outcomes compared with the poor CVH status and published up to January 20, 2025. Adjusted relative risks (RRs) were used to calculate pooled effect size using random-effect models. Results: This study included a total of 46 eligible studies. When comparing the ideal CVH score category to the poor CVH score category, the pooled RRs were 0.44 (95% CI: 0.40-0.48) for all-cause mortality, 0.33 (95% CI: 0.29-0.39) for CVD mortality, 0.51 (95% CI: 0.46-0.57) for total cancer mortality, 0.36 (95% CI: 0.33-0.39) for CVD, 0.75 (95% CI: 0.69-0.81) for total cancer and 0.65(95% CI: 0.55-0.96) for all-cause dementia, respectively. We also observed significant reduction of risk of diabetes, NAFLD, depression, anxiety, chronic kidney diseases, etc. Due to limited literatures and high heterogeneity , some of these results required further validation. Dose-response meta-analysis showed a linear reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality, total cancer mortality and a nonlinear reduction of CVD mortality and incident stroke, myocardial infarction. Conclusions: This study find that ideal CVH score is strongly inversely associated with the risk of all-cause, CVD and total cancer mortality, as well as incident several 2 common NCDs. There's a linear dose-response reduction of risk of all-cause mortality, total cancer mortality and a nonlinear dose-response reduction of risk of CVD mortality, incident CVD, stroke, myocardial infarction with the increase of CVH score.
Keywords: CVH, Mortality, cardiovascular disease, Cancer, diabetes
Received: 16 Apr 2025; Accepted: 16 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Zhang, Wu, Shi and Chen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Dexu Chen, 201999000096@sdu.edu.cn
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