ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
The impact of social activity on cardiovascular disease risk among middle-aged and older adults in China: a nationwide cohort study based on the CHARLS database.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Holistic Lifestyle Framework to Longitudinally Evaluate Cardiovascular Disparities and Post-Diagnosis Changes Among Older Thai Adults.JACC. Asia · 2026Article
- Association of long-term exposure to green space with cardiovascular health and the mediating role of triglyceride-glucose in dex in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: a nationwide cohort study.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2026Article
- Association between visceral adiposity index and incident dementia: a community-based cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- How social and political participation in later life divergently impact on perceived health of older adults: a case study in Central Italy.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The impact of educational attainment on the risk of three types of atherosclerosis: A two-sample mendelian randomization analysis.Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: This study aims to examine the relationship between social activity and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in middle-aged and older adults in China. Methods: We used data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) collected between 2011 and 2020. The study followed 4,099 participants aged 45 and older, all free from cardiovascular disease at baseline (2011), over a 9-year period. CVD status was self-reported by participants. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were employed to illustrate the cumulative incidence of cardiovascular events across different levels of social activity. Cox proportional hazards regression models and restricted cubic spline (RCS) were used to evaluate the association between social activity and CVD risk. Subgroup analyses were conducted to explore potential interactions between social activity and CVD risk, stratified by age, gender, education level, smoking and drinking status, number of chronic conditions, depression, and body mass index (BMI). Results: A total of 4,099 participants were included in the analysis. Over the 9-year follow-up period, 813 cardiovascular events occurred. After adjusting for age, gender, residence, education, marital status, smoking and drinking habits, chronic disease burden, depression, and BMI, each 0.1 decrease in social activity level was associated with a 7.4% increased risk of cardiovascular events (aHR, 1.074; 95% CI: 1.069-1.079). Conclusion: Social activity is significantly linked to the risk of cardiovascular disease among middle-aged and older adults in China. These findings emphasize the importance of maintaining social engagement to support cardiovascular health in this population.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.