This study included a randomly selected subcohort (n=502), cardiovascular disease (CVD) cases (n=245), and heart failure cases (n=220) from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study.
In patients without HF at baseline (89.9%), we derived the 5-year risk for incident HF using the 9-variable Health ABCHF Risk score [classified as low-to-average (<10%), high (10-20%), and very high (≥ 20%)].
In this study, we included Health ABC study (Health, Aging, and Body Composition) participants without prevalent HF who had arterial stiffness measured as carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) at baseline (n=2290).