Global burden of cardiovascular disease
- John E Sanderson1,
- Bongani Mayosi2,
- Salim Yusuf3,
- Srinath Reddy4,
- Shengshou Hu5,
- Zhengming Chen6,
- Adam Timmis7
- 1Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- 2Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
- 3Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- 4All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
- 5Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- 6CTSU, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 7London Chest Hospital, London, UK
- Professor J E Sanderson, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine The Medical School University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; j.e.sanderson{at}bham.ac.uk
It was estimated in 1998 that 85% of the global burden of cardiovascular diseases occurred in low and middle income countries.1 2 Furthermore, about half the deaths in the 1990s attributable to cardiovascular diseases in these countries were in those below the age of 70 years compared with only a quarter in the developed countries.2
Although the mortality rate of cardiovascular diseases and prevalence of major …
