Background In rural and remote Australia, cardiovascular mortality and morbidity rates are
higher than metropolitan rates. This study analysed cardiovascular and other chronic …

Background Afghanistan is the 15 th least developed country in the world, with poor
sanitation and high rates of infectious diseases and malnutrition. However, little is known …

Background Population aging is dynamic process of increasing proportion of older adults in
the total population, which is an inescapable result of decline in fertility rate and extension in …

Background Although coal miners are susceptible to dyslipidaemia owing to their highly
risky and stressful working environment as well as unhealthy lifestyle, very few studies have …

Background Low plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels are a strong,
independent, but poorly understood risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although …

Objectives Cardiovascular (CVD) mortality disparities between rural/regional and urban-
dwelling residents of Australia are persistent. Unavailability of biomedical CVD risk factor …

Background Dyslipidemia is an important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases
(CVDs). The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence and determinants of …

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Introduction: Rural areas require better use of existing health professionals to ensure
capacity to deliver improved cardiovascular outcomes. Community pharmacists (CPs) are …

Background Hypertriglyceridaemia (HTG; defined as≥ 1.7 mmol/L) has a prevalence of 18–
33% with significant inter‐regional variation. Despite meta‐analysis demonstrating its …