American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7 and incidence of venous thromboembolism

The American Heart Association (AHA) has recently promoted primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) by recommending that Americans optimize “Life's Simple 7.” As described in Supporting Information Table 1, Life's Simple 7 comprises seven CVD risk factors or behaviors (smoking, body mass index, physical activity, diet, total cholesterol, blood pressure, and fasting serum glucose), which AHA categorized into ideal, intermediate, or poor...