… of studies from around the world. Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke are foremost
in the global burden of obesity and CVD. The Global Burden of Disease Study ranked these …

… Heart failure doubtless adds considerably to the burden of cardiovascular diseases throughout
the world. However, estimation of this component of heart disease is not reliable because …

… was the world’s leading cause of disability, while heart disease and stroke ranked fifth and …
indications of an evolving worldwide epidemic of cardiovascular disease and stroke, we have …

… A meta-analysis of cohort studies on the morbidity and mortality of coronary heart disease
(… 14%; the risk of stroke increased 4%; and the risk of ischemic stroke increased 16%. The …

… Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide. In the ongoing global epidemic of
cardiovascular disease, stroke has … world where stroke is the predominant subtype of vascular …

… ; assess and track the magnitude of the cardiovascular disease epidemic … to create a world
in which most heart disease and stroke could be eliminated.… coronary heart disease stroke …

… the incidence of CHD and stroke [3]. Despite these favorable trends, several lines of evidence
suggest that the overall worldwide burden of illness from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is …

… infectious disease epidemics, but other, noncommunicable diseases also have benefited
from this broad approach. Mortality from tobacco-caused diseases, cardiovascular diseases, …

… now 32 million living with ischemic heart disease, 9 and the … impact of the evolving pandemic
of CVD is to be controlled. … pandemic of CVD and address the devastating worldwide effect …

… for the surveillance of noncommunicable diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO) …
to cardiovascular disease (CVD) in developing countries: the upsurge of the CVD epidemic …