TY - JOUR AU - Laukkanen, Tanjaniina AU - Kunutsor, Setor K. AU - Khan, Hassan AU - Willeit, Peter AU - Zaccardi, Francesco AU - Laukkanen, Jari A. PY - 2018 DA - 2018/11/29 TI - Sauna bathing is associated with reduced cardiovascular mortality and improves risk prediction in men and women: a prospective cohort study JO - BMC Medicine SP - 219 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Previous evidence indicates that sauna bathing is related to a reduced risk of fatal cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in men. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sauna habits and CVD mortality in men and women, and whether adding information on sauna habits to conventional cardiovascular risk factors is associated with improvement in prediction of CVD mortality risk. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1198-0 DO - 10.1186/s12916-018-1198-0 ID - Laukkanen2018 ER -