4 results match your criteria: "Million Veteran Program Boston Coordinating Center[Affiliation]"
Cardiovascular Health Score and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the Million Veteran Program.
JAMA Netw Open
December 2024
Million Veteran Program Boston Coordinating Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts.
Importance: The American Heart Association proposed Life's Essential 8 (LE8) as an enhanced measurement tool for cardiovascular health.
Objective: To examine the association of LE8 with risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) incidence and prognosis in veterans.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This was a prospective cohort study of US veterans enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Million Veteran Program (MVP) between 2011 and 2022.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Dietary Intake and Quality Among United States Veterans.
Curr Dev Nutr
October 2024
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
Background: Dietary quality plays an important role in disease development and prognosis, and diet is also a key contributor to disparities in many chronic diseases and health conditions.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess racial and ethnic disparities experienced by veterans; we examined food intake and dietary quality across different racial and ethnic groups of United States veterans.
Methods: The study included 420,730 males and females aged 19-107 y (91.
Data resource profile: nutrition data in the VA million veteran program.
Int J Popul Data Sci
March 2024
Million Veteran Program Boston Coordinating Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Introduction: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Million Veteran Program (MVP) nutrition data is derived from dietary food/beverage intake information collected through a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire (SFFQ).
Methods: Estimates of dietary energy, nutrient, and non-nutritive food components intakes data were derived from an extensively validated SFFQ, which assessed the habitual frequency of consumption of 61 food items, added sugar, fried food frequency, and 21 nutritional supplements over the 12 months preceding questionnaire administration.
Results: Complete nutrition data was available for 353,418 MVP participants as of 30 September 2021.
Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among United States veterans: The Million Veteran Program.
Am J Clin Nutr
January 2024
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States; Department of Medicine, Atlanta VA Health Care System, Decatur, GA 30033, United States; Cardiology Division, Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Atlanta, GA 30033, United States.
Background: Lifestyle medicine has been proposed as a way to address the root causes of chronic disease and their associated health care costs.
Objective: This study aimed to estimate mortality risk and longevity associated with individual lifestyle factors and comprehensive lifestyle therapy.
Methods: Age- and sex-specific mortality rates were calculated on the basis of 719,147 veterans aged 40-99 y enrolled in the Veteran Affairs Million Veteran Program (2011-2019).