Although preventable, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death
worldwide. This article discusses the state of the heart from an epidemiologic perspective …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), consisting of ischemic heart disease, stroke, heart failure,
peripheral arterial disease, and a number of other cardiac and vascular conditions …

Global burden of cardiovascular disease Page 1 EDITORIAL Global burden of
cardiovascular disease John E Sanderson, Bongani Mayosi, Salim Yusuf, Srinath Reddy …

Development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is influenced by risk factors such as: tobacco
use, an unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, obesity (which can result from a combination of …

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and dis-ability in Canada (1, 2). The
increasing age of our population and unhealthy eating habits are associated with increases …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is known to be the leading cause of death worldwide. Yet,
global trends in different CVD subtypes, nonfatal CVD events, and corresponding morbidity …

Despite numerous groundbreaking advances in the field, cardiovascular disease remains
the leading cause of mortality in the United States, accounting for more than 787,000 deaths …

Background Two points may be helpful as background to this essay. One is to note that
public health revolutions have occurred previously but never before with such clear …

Recently available data on the global burden of disease document, perhaps for the first time,
that cardiovascular disease (CVD) has achieved the dubious status of the leading cause of …

Background: The burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remains unclear in many
regions of the world. Objectives: The GBD (Global Burden of Disease) 2015 study integrated …