New research has revealed five childhood risk factors that can increase the likelihood of experiencing stroke and heart attacks as an adult, in what researchers say is the world’s largest study of its type.
earlier this week and conducted by the International Childhood Cardiovascular Consortium , tracked more than 38,000 participants for up to half a century in order to narrow down the risk factors.
He added that longitudinal studies have often been hampered by “a lack of inclusion of comprehensive childhood data around body measurements, blood pressure, and blood lipids and a failure to follow-up at ages when cardiovascular disease becomes common,” something they wanted to make sure they addressed in this study design.
Researchers then compared the childhood data to whether adults experienced a cardiovascular event in order to see which issues present in childhood were correlated most strongly with the presence of a heart attack or stroke later on.
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