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Burden of Cardio- and Cerebro-vascular Diseases and the Conventional Risk Factors in South Asian Population |
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| Authors: | Tanvir Chowdhury Turin Nahid Shahana Lungten Z Wangchuk Adrian V Specogna Mohammad Al Mamun Mudassir Azeez Khan Sohel Reza Choudhury M Mostafa Zaman Nahid Rumana |
| Institution: | 2. Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;3. Department of Community Health Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;4. Department of Anatomy, Bangladesh Medical College, Bangladesh Medical Studies and Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh;1. President, World Hypertension League, Fu Wai Hospital, Beijing, China;2. President Elect, World Hypertension League, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada;3. Secretary General, World Hypertension League, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada;1. Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA;2. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA;2. Shah Satnamji Specialty Hospital, Sirsa, India;3. Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, India;4. Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, Jaipur, India;5. Panasonic Healthcare Company of North America, Secaucus, NJ, USA;7. Cardionexus Corporation, Houston, TX, USA;11. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA;12. Cardiologie Centra Nederland, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Abstract: | Similar to most populations, South Asian countries are also witnessing the dramatic transitions in health during the last few decades with the major causes of adverse health shifting from a predominance of nutritional deficiencies and infectious diseases to chronic diseases such as cardio and cerebrovascular disease (CVD). We summarized the available information of the burden of CVD and risk factors in the South Asian populations. The prevalence of conventional cardiovascular has been increasing among all South Asian populations. Extensive urbanization, shift in dietary pattern and sedentary daily life style is contributing towards the worsening of the CVD risk factor scenario. The burdens of the chronic cardiovascular risk factors are much prevalent in the South Asian populations. These are also rising alarmingly which ought to influence the already existed heavy CVD burden. Similar to the rest of the world, management for the conventional cardiovascular risk factors is very important for the prevention of CVD in South Asia. |
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