Healthy lifestyle and risk of incident heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction among post-menopausal women: The Women's Health Initiative study

We examined associations of diet, physical activity, cigarette smoking, and body mass index (BMI), separately and as a cumulative lifestyle score, with incident hospitalized HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This analysis included 40,095 postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial and observational studies, aged 50–79 years and without self-reported HF at baseline....