Association of Life's Simple 7 with mild cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults in China: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Life's Simple 7 (LS7), a metric composed of seven intervenable cardiovascular risk factors, is initiated by the American Heart Association to improve cardiovascular health. The components of LS7 have been reported as risk factors for dementia. However, few studies investigated the association between LS7 metric and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).