Past president of the American Heart Association, Donna K. Arnett, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., B.S.N., Dean, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

Offering perspective on AHA Scientific Sessions 2020 Presentation P929 
copyright American Heart Association 2020


"In this study, it's very well done. They evaluated over 20,000 adults who were close to the age of 65 years on average. And they looked at the impact of maintaining healthy lifestyle factors while taking multiple drugs. So in terms of strengths, first is very large study and it's nationally representative of the US which makes it easy to interpret for all Americans. Secondly, it's been conducted over a long period of time so that we now know can evaluate the effects of changes over time in terms of these risk factors in pharmacy in relation to all-cause mortality."