Growing Epidemic of Coronary Heart Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
By T. Gaziano, A. Bitton, S. Anand, S. Abrahams-Gessel, A. Murphy. Current problems in cardiology, 2010
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Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the single largest cause of death in the developed countries and is one of the leading causes of disease burden in developing countries. In 2001, there were 7.3 million deaths due to CHD worldwide. Three-fourths of global deaths due to CHD occurred in the low and middle-income countries. The rapid rise in CHD burden in most of the low and middle and income countries is due to socio-economic changes, increase in life span and acquisition of lifestyle related risk factors. The CHD death rate, however, varies dramatically across the developing countries. The varying incidence, prevalence, and mortality rates reflect the different levels of risk factors, other competing causes of death, availability of resources to combat CVD, and the stage of epidemiologic transition that each country or region finds itself. The economic burden of CHD is equally large but solutions exist to manage this growing burden.
Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Health Information Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Recent global trends in the prevalence and incidence of dementia, and survival with dementia (2016, background): “The picture in many low- and middle-income countries is quite different: The trends in cardiovascular health among older people are in an adverse direction [9], with a pattern of increasing stroke [10] and ischaemic heart disease morbidity and mortality [11–13], linked to an epidemic of obesity and ”
- Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases (2012, background): “While CHD death rates have declined in many parts of the industrialised world, death rates are increasing in most developing countries [70].”