Adherence to higher Life’s Essential 8 scores is linearly associated with reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among US adults with metabolic syndrome: Results from NHANES 2005–2018

• Dao-Cheng Zhou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Shenzhen Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Jia-Lin Liang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Xin-Yu Hu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Hong-Cheng Fang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Shenzhen Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• De-Liang Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Heng-Xia Zhao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Hui-Lin Li ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xwhua2002@163.com (WHX); sztcmlhl@163.com (HLL)

  Affiliation Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4888-1025

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• Wen-Hua Xu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xwhua2002@163.com (WHX); sztcmlhl@163.com (HLL)

  Affiliation Shenzhen Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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