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SUBMITTER: Ezzati M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4945698 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ezzati Majid M Obermeyer Ziad Z Tzoulaki Ioanna I Mayosi Bongani M BM Elliott Paul P Leon David A DA
Nature reviews. Cardiology 20150616 9
Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) lead to 17.5 million deaths worldwide per year. Taking into account population ageing, CVD death rates are decreasing steadily both in regions with reliable trend data and globally. The declines in high-income countries and some Latin American countries have been ongoing for decades without slowing. These positive trends have broadly coincided with, and benefited from, declines in smoking and physiological risk factors, su ...[more]