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posted on 2022-12-19, 10:19 authored by Setor K Kunutsor, Jari A Laukkanen

Non-communicable diseases accounted for 74% of deaths globally in 2019, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) persisting as the leading cause of death [1]. Atherosclerotic CVD or arterial thrombotic disease, which includes ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease (mainly ischemic stroke) [2], are the main clinical manifestations of CVD. Atherosclerotic CVD poses immense health and economic burdens globally. Major risk factors for atherosclerotic CVD include age, sex, family history, race, hypertension, high cholesterol levels, smoking, diabetes, overweight or obesity, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, and stress [3]. Given the significant challenges attributed to CVDs in the United States (US), the American Heart Association (AHA) developed a metric to tackle the burden of CVD among the US population, which is based on positively modifying four health behaviors (smoking, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, and diet) and three health factors (blood pressure (BP), fasting blood glucose and total cholesterol levels) [4].

History

Author affiliation

Diabetes Research Centre, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Published in

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volume

20

Issue

9

Pagination

683 - 688

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

issn

1477-9072

eissn

1744-8344

Copyright date

2022

Available date

2023-08-01

Spatial coverage

England

Language

English