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Early Adult Risk Factor Levels and Subsequent Coronary Artery Calcification

The CARDIA Study

Catherine M. Loria, PhD^_*,_*, Kiang Liu, PhD, Cora E. Lewis, MD, MPSPH, Stephen B. Hulley, MD, Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH^¶, Pamela J. Schreiner, PhD^||, O. Dale Williams, PhD, Diane E. Bild, MD, MPH^_* and Robert Detrano, MD, PhD^_**

^_* Division of Prevention and Population Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California
^¶ Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California
^|| Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
^_** Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Research and Education Institute, Torrance, California

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 1 Percent of Participants With Above Optimal Levels of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors According to Clinical Guidelines and Who Smoked Cigarettes at Years 0 and 15 in the CARDIA Study, 1985 to 1986 Above optimal defined as: low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol 130 mg/dl; high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol 40 mg/dl; systolic/diastolic blood pressure 120/80 mm Hg; glucose 110 mg/dl; body mass index 25 kg/m2.