Age-stratified comparison of heart age and predicted cardiovascular risk in 370 000 primary care patients
Short-term CVD risk and heart age are not interchangeable risk metrics. Short-term risk increases with increasing age whereas heart age gaps generally decline, with major differences between younger and older people with similar short-term risk. If heart age is used to inform medication decisions rather than encourage long-term lifestyle changes, older people at high short-term risk could be undertreated and younger people at low short-term risk could be unnecessarily medicated.
Authors
- Jesper Bo Nielsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5764-5462)
- Sue Wells (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2942-9524)
- Anders Elkær Jensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9056-9326)
- Suneela Mehta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4386-3300)
- Andrew Kerr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8310-6289)
- Katrina Poppe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4418-4476)
- Rod Jackson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5914-6934)
- Kathrine Stjernholm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1198-2022)
Institutions
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- University of Southern Denmark (DK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Heart
- Published
- 2024-12-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2024-324156
- Citations
- 6
- Primary Topic
- Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.44
Funders
- National Heart Foundation of New Zealand
- University of Auckland
- Lundbeckfonden
- A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal
- H. Lundbeck A/S
- Health Research Council of New Zealand
- Fonden til Lægevidenskabens Fremme