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Life's Essential 8™ and incident dementia in an urban cohort: Findings from the Northern Manhattan Study
Erin‐Leigh Gallop
Pooja Kondeti
H. Gardener
T. Rundek
José Gutierrez
Mitchell S. V. Elkind
Clinton B. Wright
Bonnie Levin
Lily Wang
Christian Agudelo
S. Assuras
Vanessa A. Guzman
T. Elfassy
Medicine
Abstract
The American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8™ (LE8) defines cardiovascular health (CVH) using eight behavioral and clinical metrics. We examined the association between CVH and incident dementia.