ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Med.
Sec. Pulmonary Medicine
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1530493
Association of Life's Essential 8 with the prevalence and mortality of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Provisionally accepted
- Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China
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Objective: To study the correlation between Life's Essential 8 (LE8) and the occurrence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among US adults, as well as the association between LE8 and all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality among individuals with COPD.Methods: Data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2018 year) were analyzed. The correlation between LE8 scores and the prevalence of COPD was evaluated using logistic regression models. Additionally, the Cox proportional hazards model was applied to investigate how LE8 scores relate to the risk of mortality from all causes and cardiovascular diseases. To ensure the robustness of the findings, sensitivity analyses and subgroup analyses were performed.In the overall population, an inverse relationship was observed between a 10-point increase in LE8 score and the risk of COPD [OR=0.78, 95%CI (0.75~0.82), P<0.001]. Those diagnosed with COPD experienced a 65% increased rate of all-cause mortality and 5% higher rate of mortality due to cardiovascular diseases compared to the non-COPD group. Within the COPD patient cohort, an inverse relationship was similarly observed between a 10-point increase in the LE8 score and the risk of all-cause mortality [HR=0.87, 95%CI (0.8~0.95), P=0.002]. However, no significant association was found between the LE8 score and CVD mortality [HR=0.83, 95%CI (0.68~1.02), P=0.073]. In further exploration through subgroup analysis, no statistically significant interactions were found, suggesting consistency across different demographic or clinical subgroups.Higher LE8 adherence is linked to lower COPD prevalence and all-cause mortality, yet no clear link to CVD mortality was found. This highlights the need for more extensive research to clarify LE8's role in CVD outcomes.
Keywords: Life's Essential 8, All-cause mortality, CVD mortality, COPD, NHANES
Received: 19 Nov 2024; Accepted: 10 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Shi, Huang, Liu and Huang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Yushan Shi, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China
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