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Chapter 2. The Burden Of Increasing Worldwide Cardiovascular DiseaseChapter 2. The Burden Of Increasing Worldwide Cardiovascular DiseaseThe definitive guide to everything heart related!
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Sections: Introduction, The World in Transition: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease, Challenges of the Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic in Developing Countries: Differences from Developed Countries, Measuring the Burden of Disease: The Global Burden of Disease Project and the Concept of Disability-Adjusted Life-Year, Cardiovascular Diseases, Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, Congestive Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Hypertension, Rheumatic Valvular Heart Disease, Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease: Global Responses to the Epidemic, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the United States: Challenge of Ethnic Disparities, Conclusion, References, Web Sources.
Topics Discussed: cardiovascular diseases.
Excerpt: "It is widely acknowledged that heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States and other developed countries.1 What is less appreciated is that this holds true for the developing countries as well.1 We are in the midst of a true global cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemic.2 CVD is responsible for approximately 30 percent of all deaths worldwide each year.3 Of note, nearly 80 percent of these deaths occur in low and middle income countries, and half occur in women. Indeed, CVD is the leading cause of mortality in every region of the world with the sole exception of sub-Saharan Africa where infectious diseases are still the leading cause. Chapter 2 describes the current global burden of CVD and its risk factors, emphasizing the evolution of the CVD epidemic in developing countries and its contributory factors. Furthermore, the projected trends in the global burden of CVD over the next two decades are elucidated, and ongoing efforts by the world community (including the World Health Organization [WHO]) to combat and contain the current epidemic are outlined. The broad term, CVD, includes coronary..."
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