Cardiovascular Risk and Events in 17 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · Population Health Research Institute · +31 more institutions
Abstract
More than 80% of deaths from cardiovascular disease are estimated to occur in low-income and middle-income countries, but the reasons are unknown.
We enrolled 156,424 persons from 628 urban and rural communities in 17 countries (3 high-income, 10 middle-income, and 4 low-income countries) and assessed their cardiovascular risk using the INTERHEART Risk Score, a validated score for quantifying risk-factor burden without the use of laboratory testing (with higher scores indicating greater risk-factor burden). Participants were followed for incident cardiovascular disease and death for a mean of 4.1 years.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 79.05
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 17
Authors
40- SYSalim YusufCorresponding
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University
- SRSumathy Rangarajan
Hamilton General Hospital, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University
- KTKoon Teo
Hamilton General Hospital, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University
- SIShofiqul Islam
Hamilton General Hospital, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University
- WLWei Li
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Hamilton General Hospital, Population Health Research Institute, Fu Wai Hospital
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Demography
- Risk factor
- High income countries
- Case fatality rate
- Myocardial infarction
- Environmental health
- Developing country