Global Cardiovascular Disease Research Survey

Global health and cardiovascular disease.

1217 The epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), is the largest the world has ever known. In 2011, global heads of state joined together at the United Nations High Level Meeting to focus on noncommunicable diseases – the first time the United Nations focused on a health issue since the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 2001. We are faced with the ambitious target of re...

Global risk of cardiovascular disease.

UK death rates from coronary heart disease are among the highest in the world. This is because the UK has high levels of standard risk factors and a low level of intervention on those risk factors. The most important modifiable cardiovascular risk factors are dyslipidaemia (particularly high LDL cholesterol and low HDL cholesterol), smoking, hypertension, glucose intolerance, and central obesit...

Global cardiovascular disease prevention: a call to action for nursing: the global burden of cardiovascular disease.

Progress, from the Latin progressus, means Bmoving forward[ or Badvancing.[Yet progress can be a paradoxical concept, and, as has frequently been observed, we often seem to be taking 2 steps backward even as we slowly inch forward. As our world grows richer, some populations become poorer, and many become sicker. As we live longer, too often we become less healthy. And, although we live in a pe...

Spectrum of Neuropharmacology Research and Global Contributors: A Pharmacology Journal Survey During 2002

The global epidemic of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Of the 50 million deaths that occur in the world, 40 million occur in developing countries. Already a substantial proportion of these deaths are due to cardiovascular diseases. It is projected that by the year 2025 well over 80-90% of all the cardiovascular diseases in the world will be occurring in low income and middle income countries. This increase in cardiovascular disease is due to a numb...