{"id":9164,"date":"2011-07-06T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:21","slug":"lower-sudden-cardiac-death-rates-observed-in-women-with-healthy-lifestyles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/07\/06\/lower-sudden-cardiac-death-rates-observed-in-women-with-healthy-lifestyles\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Sudden Cardiac Death Rates Observed in Women with Healthy Lifestyles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It probably won&#8217;t come as a big surprise, but a new study finds that women who live a healthy lifestyle have a lower risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD). In <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/content\/306\/1\/62.short\">a paper published in <em>JAMA<\/em><\/a>, Stephanie Chiuve and colleagues analyzed data from 81,722 women enrolled in the Nurses&#8217; Health Study. They used 4 factors to identify a low-risk lifestyle:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>not smoking<\/li>\n<li>BMI &lt;25<\/li>\n<li>exercise lasting 30 minutes or longer per day<\/li>\n<li>adherence to the Mediterranean diet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each factor was individually associated with a significant reduction in risk for SCD. Here are the absolute risks and adjusted relative risks for SCD in women with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0 low-risk factors: 22 cases\/100,000 person-years, RR=1<\/li>\n<li>1 low-risk factor: 17\/100,000, RR = 0.54<\/li>\n<li>2 low-risk factors: 18\/100,000, RR =0.41<\/li>\n<li>3 low-risk factors: 13\/100,000, RR = 0.33<\/li>\n<li>4 low-risk factors: 16\/100,000, RR = 0.08<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The authors calculated that 4 out of every 5 SCDs may be attributed to &#8220;unhealthy lifestyle practices.&#8221; They concluded: &#8220;Because SCD accounts for more than 50% of CHD mortality, widespread adoption of a healthy lifestyle in the population may make a substantial impact on reaching the American Heart Association&#8217;s 2020 Impact Goal of further lowering cardiovascular disease mortality.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It probably won&#8217;t come as a big surprise, but a new study finds that women who live a healthy lifestyle have a lower risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD). In a paper published in JAMA, Stephanie Chiuve and colleagues analyzed data from 81,722 women enrolled in the Nurses&#8217; Health Study. They used 4 factors to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[298,898,897,698],"class_list":["post-9164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrophysiology","category-prevention","tag-nurses-health-study","tag-scd","tag-sudden-cardiac-death","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}