Cardiovascular Disease Risk Estimation in China

Lu and colleagues estimated the prevalence of high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in a cohort of almost 1.7 million Chinese adults aged 35 to 75 years with no history of a CVD event. The editorialists see their findings as an important call to action for highly populated middle- and low-income countries in which worsening of the CVD risk factor profile is outpacing the current health sector response.

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