Living Longer in Good Cardiovascular Health: Prevention and Wellness Makes Economic Cents

Affiliations

¹ From Center for Healthcare Advancement & Outcomes, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Baptist Health South Florida (K.N.); The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Baltimore, MD (K.N.); Department of Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health, Florida International University, Miami (K.N.); Baptist Health South Florida, Miami (B.K.); and Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, CT (H.M.K.). KhurramN@baptisthealth.net knasir1@jhmi.edu.
² From Center for Healthcare Advancement & Outcomes, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Baptist Health South Florida (K.N.); The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Baltimore, MD (K.N.); Department of Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health, Florida International University, Miami (K.N.); Baptist Health South Florida, Miami (B.K.); and Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, CT (H.M.K.).

Editorial

Khurram Nasir et al. Circulation. 2017.

. 2017 May 2;135(18):1702-1704.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.027960.

¹ From Center for Healthcare Advancement & Outcomes, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Baptist Health South Florida (K.N.); The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Baltimore, MD (K.N.); Department of Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health, Florida International University, Miami (K.N.); Baptist Health South Florida, Miami (B.K.); and Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, CT (H.M.K.). KhurramN@baptisthealth.net knasir1@jhmi.edu.
² From Center for Healthcare Advancement & Outcomes, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Baptist Health South Florida (K.N.); The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Baltimore, MD (K.N.); Department of Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health, Florida International University, Miami (K.N.); Baptist Health South Florida, Miami (B.K.); and Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, CT (H.M.K.).

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Keywords: Editorials; cardiovascular disease; health care costs; healthy lifestyle; outcome assessment; prevention.

Comment on

Favorable Cardiovascular Health, Compression of Morbidity, and Healthcare Costs: Forty-Year Follow-Up of the CHA Study (Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry).
Allen NB, Zhao L, Liu L, Daviglus M, Liu K, Fries J, Shih YT, Garside D, Vu TH, Stamler J, Lloyd-Jones DM. Allen NB, et al. Circulation. 2017 May 2;135(18):1693-1701. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.026252. Circulation. 2017. PMID: 28461414 Free PMC article.