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Abstract

Despite major achievements in risk factor control and clinical care over the last decades, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 31% of deaths annually. A large amount of the burden of CVD can be attributed to modifiable behavioral risk factors, such as obesity, smoking, poor diet, and physical inactivity. However, major challenges are triggering and maintaining behavior change during a patient’s lifetime. This may in part be because of inadequacies in health literacy, in that almost 50% of US and European adults do not understand or are not able to apply general health information.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Climie, R and Fuster, V and Empana, JP
Keywords:	cardiovascular health, childhood, health literacy
Journal or Publication Title:	JAMA Cardiology
Publisher:	American Medical Association
ISSN:	2380-6583
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.2864
Copyright Information:	© 2020 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
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