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States and many high-income countries. Although cardiovascular health (CVH) 1 after midlife is associated with lower risk for CVD and mortality, CVH rapidly declines with age beginning in young adulthood. 2 Yet data are scarce about the associations of young adulthood CVH, and particularly its change, with premature CVD events. 3

Using a nationwide, single-provider database of the Korean National Health Insurance Service, 4 we analyzed data collected from routine health examinees 20 to 39 years of age in 2003 and 2004. Because of the sensitive nature of the collected data, requests to access the database from qualified researchers may be sent to the Korean National Health Insurance Service at https://nhiss. nhis. or. kr. The Institutional Review Board of Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea, approved this study with a waiver of informed consent (# Y-2019-0081). Participants were categorized …