The Global Cardiovascular Risk Transition
Author(s) -
Goodarz Danaei,
Gitanjali M Singh,
Christopher Paciorek,
John K. Lin,
Melanie Cowan,
Mariel M. Finucane,
Farshad Farzadfar,
Gretchen A Stevens,
Leanne M Riley,
Yuan Lu,
Mayuree Rao,
Majid Ezzati
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.113.001470
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , blood pressure , population , demography , risk factor , diabetes mellitus , environmental health , endocrinology , sociology
It is commonly assumed that cardiovascular disease risk factors are associated with affluence and Westernization. We investigated the associations of body mass index (BMI), fasting plasma glucose, systolic blood pressure, and serum total cholesterol with national income, Western diet, and, for BMI, urbanization in 1980 and 2008.0info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
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