Summary
This article discusses the increasing global burden of cardiovascular disease and highlights key risk factors in Asia in particular. It also discusses some important interventions that have been initiated in order to reach the World Heart Federation’s goal of a 25% reduction in premature deaths from cardiovascular disease by 2025.
- Asia
- cardiovascular disease
- coronary artery disease
- diabetes
- Emerging Leaders Programme
- hypertension
- obesity
- smoking
- stroke
- World Heart Federation
- World Health Organization
- WHO
- cardiology & cardiovascular medicine guidelines
- cardiology & cardiovascular medicine screening & prevention
- hypertensive disease
- smoking cessation
- © 2015 SAGE Publications
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The Global Challenge to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease by 25% by 2025
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