作者
Salim Yusuf, Sumathy Rangarajan, Koon Teo, Shofiqul Islam, Wei Li, Lisheng Liu, Jian Bo, Qinglin Lou, Fanghong Lu, Tianlu Liu, Liu Yu, Shiying Zhang, Prem Mony, Sumathi Swaminathan, Viswanathan Mohan, Rajeev Gupta, Rajesh Kumar, Krishnapillai Vijayakumar, Scott Lear, Sonia Anand, Andreas Wielgosz, Rafael Diaz, Alvaro Avezum, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Fernando Lanas, Khalid Yusoff, Noorhassim Ismail, Romaina Iqbal, Omar Rahman, Annika Rosengren, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Roya Kelishadi, Annamarie Kruger, Thandi Puoane, Andrzej Szuba, Jephat Chifamba, Aytekin Oguz, Matthew McQueen, Martin McKee, Gilles Dagenais
发表日期
2014/8/28
期刊
New England Journal of Medicine
卷号
371
期号
9
页码范围
818-827
出版商
Massachusetts Medical Society
简介
Background
More than 80% of deaths from cardiovascular disease are estimated to occur in low-income and middle-income countries, but the reasons are unknown.
Methods
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.
Results
The mean INTERHEART Risk Score was highest in high-income countries, intermediate in middle-income countries, and lowest in low-income countries (P<0.001). However, the rates of major cardiovascular events (death from cardiovascular causes, myocardial infarction …
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