{"id":4640,"date":"2011-02-28T03:16:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T01:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:01:43","slug":"study-1-in-1900-has-ideal-heart-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/study-1-in-1900-has-ideal-heart-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: 1 in 1900 Has Ideal Heart Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/early\/2011\/02\/14\/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.980151.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent, community-based study<\/a> of 1,933 middle aged\/older people (ages 45 &#8211; 75) in Allegheny County, PA, found only 1 person who met the American Heart Association&#8217;s definition of ideal cardiovascular health.<\/p>\n<p>The Heart Association defines &#8220;ideal cardiovascular health&#8221; as a combination of 7 factors:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>nonsmoking<\/li>\n<li>BMI&lt;25<\/li>\n<li>goal level physical activity<\/li>\n<li>healthy diet<\/li>\n<li>untreated cholesterol &lt; 200<\/li>\n<li>blood pressure &lt; 120\/80<\/li>\n<li>fasting blood sugar &lt; 100<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>According to the researchers, less than 10% of all participants had 5 or more factors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/releases\/217019.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to senior author Dr. Steven Reis&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Of all the people we assessed, only one out of 1,900 could claim ideal heart health,&#8221; said Dr. Reis. &#8220;This tells us that the current prevalence of heart health is extremely low, and that we have a great challenge ahead of us to attain the AHA&#8217;s aim of a 20 percent improvement in cardiovascular health rates by 2020.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A &#8220;great challenge&#8221; indeed. Given the data that Dr. Reis and his team collected, this could be the understatement of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 A recent, community-based study of 1,933 middle aged\/older people (ages 45 &#8211; 75) in Allegheny County, PA, found only 1 person who met the American Heart Association&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28],"tags":[120,843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9596,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/9596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}