Though avoidance of risk factors in youth is ideal, there is still a window for intervention
where long-lasting cardiovascular effects might be avoided. Health-enhancing changes in …

Pathology studies demonstrated that coronary fatty streaks develop early in life and that
even more advanced fibrous plaques are present in a proportion of adolescents. The …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death in developed countries
around the world. 1 Although the mortality rate from CVD has declined since the middle of …

Evidence that most cardiovascular disease is preventable led to development of the
American Heart Association's initial “Guide to the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular …

Opinion statement Approaches to the prevention and management of cardiovascular
disease (CVD) are often too narrow in scope and initiated too late. While the majority of …

The primary purpose of this article is to provide a broad overview of the research on the long-
term effects of childhood risk factors on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) during adulthood …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention can address the major risk factors—blood lipids,
blood pressure, and smoking—and their determinants throughout the lifespan, with …

Improvements in cardiovascular disease (CVD) rates among young adults in the past 2
decades have been offset by increasing racial/ethnic and gender disparities, persistence of …

Although for most children the process of atherosclerosis is subclinical, dramatically
accelerated atherosclerosis occurs in some pediatric disease states, with clinical coronary …

Abstract Purpose of Review Atherosclerotic-CVD processes begin early in life and are
influenced over the life course by interaction of genetic and potential modifiable risk factors …