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In the China Rural Hypertension Control Project (CRHC), improving cardiovascular health via intensive blood pressure management is linked to lower cardiovascular risk, with the strongest effect in BP-plus-behavior/metabolic patterns (HR: 0.57).
- Why it matters: Multicomponent cardiovascular health interventions may shift different Life’s Simple 7 domains in distinct ways, but how these multidimensional change patterns relate to later cardiovascular outcomes is unclear.
- What they did: This post hoc analysis of 26,700 participants tracked Life’s Simple 7 changes from 0–36 months, grouped into BP, metabolic, and behavioral domains, then used Cox models to test associations with cardiovascular outcomes at 36–48 months.
- The result: At 36 months, the intervention improved LS7 scores (net difference: 0.52; 95% CI: 0.38–0.66), and BP drove most of the effect (67.5%), with smaller behavioral (8.0%) and minimal metabolic contributions, consistent across sensitivity analyses.
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