Table 1 Demographic statistics of all males and females by tertiles of Life’s Simple 7 score

(LS7 Score)

(0–14)

10–14

8–9

0–7

10–14

8–9

0–7

Sample size, N

35,207

3,827

5,549

7,736

4,860

5,577

7,658

Age (mean ± SD)

46.6 ± 16.7

38.2 ± 14.9

45.2 ± 15.9

51.5 ± 15.5

38.4 ± 14.0

46.8 ± 16.7

54.9 ± 15.9

Female, N(%)

18,095 (51.4%)

-

-

-

-

-

-

CVD, N(%)

3391 (7.57%)

156 (3.26%)

483 (6.54%)

1337 (13.88%)

90 (1.81%)

313 (4.88%)

1012 (11.73%)

 White

16,960 (70.8%)

1,853 (69.8%)

2,760 (71.7%)

3,756 (71.6%)

2,304 (69.9%)

2,620 (69.6%)

3,667 (71.8%)

 Black

6,846 (10.3%)

696 (9.1%)

1,057 (9.4%)

1,555 (9.8%)

724 (8.2%)

1,067 (11.2%)

1,747 (13.2%)

 Hispanic

9,101 (13.2%)

904 (14.0%)

1,377 (13.7%)

2,037 (13.7%)

1,329 (13.9%)

1,516 (13.5%)

1,938 (11.2%)

 Other

2,300 (5.6%)

374 (7.1%)

355 (5.2%)

388 (4.8%)

503 (7.9%)

374 (5.7%)

306 (3.9%)

 < 9th grade

4,246 (5.9%)

275 (3.9%)

637 (5.7%)

1,268 (8.1%)

330 (3.5%)

615 (5.5%)

1,121 (7.5%)

 9–11th grade

5,503 (12.1%)

466 (8.5%)

847 (11.7%)

1,392 (14.9%)

479 (6.9%)

815 (11.3%)

1,504 (16.7%)

 High school

8,182 (24.0%)

803 (20.2%)

1,328 (24.8%)

1,937 (27.2%)

846 (16.3%)

1,329 (24.6%)

1,939 (28.2%)

 Some college

9,829 (30.8%)

1,084 (29.2%)

1,450 (28.6%)

1,883 (29.1%)

1,538 (32.7%)

1,695 (33.5%)

2,179 (31.8%)

 College graduate

7,447 (27.2%)

1,199 (38.2%)

1,287 (29.3%)

1,256 (20.8%)

1,667 (40.6%)

1,123 (25.0%)

915 (15.8%)

 All-cause

4,228 (8.5%)

259 (4.2%)

658 (7.2%)

1,491 (14.3%)

162 (2.2%)

475 (7.0%)

1,183 (12.7%)

 CVD related

1,311 (2.4%)

57 (0.9%)

201 (2.0%)

499 (4.5%)

40 (0.5%)

118 (1.6%)

396 (3.8%)

 Non-CVD related

2,917 (6.1%)

202 (3.3%)

457 (5.2%)

992 (9.8%)

122 (1.7%)

357 (5.4%)

787 (8.9%)

 8+

27,662 (80.82%)

3,605 (94.66%)

4,753 (88.28%)

5,369 (72.87%)

4,539 (92.66%)

4,630 (82.44%)

4,766 (62.69%)

 4-7

5,711 (14.79%)

195 (4.57%)

663 (10.14%)

1714 (20.06%)

278 (6.57%)

786 (14.79%)

2,075 (26.66%)

 0-3

1,813 (4.39%)

26 (0.77%)

129 (1.58%)

649 (7.06%)

40 (0.77%)

159 (2.77%)

810 (10.66%)

 < 0.1

22,538 (70.4%)

3,296 (89.2%)

4,089 (79.8%)

4,339 (64.3%)

3,978 (84.4%)

3,575 (67.3%)

3,261 (47.9%)

 0.1–0.2

7,084 (17.5%)

387 (8.2%)

871 (13.2%)

1,711 (19.4%)

695 (12.1%)

1,316 (22.4%)

2,104 (25.7%)

 0.2–0.3

2,983 (6.8%)

91 (1.7%)

359 (4.4%)

892 (8.8%)

128 (2.6%)

410 (6.4%)

1,103 (13.5%)

 > 0.3

2,602 (5.3%)

53 (0.9%)

230 (2.5%)

794 (7.5%)

59 (0.8%)

276 (4.0%)

1,190 (12.9%)

 Mean ± SD

0.09 ± 0.10

0.05 ± 0.06

0.07 ± 0.08

0.11 ± 0.11

0.06 ± 0.06

0.09 ± 0.09

0.15 ± 0.12