Social vulnerability index and age-adjusted mortality from all causes by county: Mississippi 2016-2020.

Background: Social variables are correlates of mortality. A number of social variables were used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create a Social Vulnerability Index (SVI). SVI has been used as a correlate of health status.

Prediction of individual lifetime cardiovascular risk and potential treatment benefit: development and recalibration of the LIFE-CVD2 model to four European risk regions.

Aims: The 2021 European Society of Cardiology prevention guidelines recommend the use of (lifetime) risk prediction models to aid decisions regarding initiation of prevention. We aimed to update and systematically recalibrate the LIFEtime-perspective CardioVascular Disease (LIFE-CVD) model to four European risk regions for the estimation of lifetime CVD risk for apparently healthy individuals.

Methods And Results: The updated LIFE-CVD (i.

Immigration and use of preventive aspirin by Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks in the US.

Background: In the US, little is known about aspirin use as a preventive measure for cardiovascular disease by immigration status.

Methods: Combined data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015-2016 and 2017- March 2020 (pre-pandemic data) were analyzed. Persons were asked about demographics including country of birth and those aged 40 years and older were asked about current use of aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Fractional exhaled nitric oxide and mortality in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a national cohort aged 40 years and older.

Background: Little is known about Fractional concentration of exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) as a predictor of mortality in persons with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Objective: This study tested the hypotheses that FeNO level ≥ 25 ppb was associated with mortality in a national cohort of persons with asthma or COPD age ≥ 40 years.

Methods: In the 2007-2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), FeNO was measured using an electrochemical sensor.