Cardiovascular Diseases in Pakistan: Imagining a Postpandemic, Postconflict Future.
Cardiovascular Diseases in Pakistan: Imagining a Postpandemic, Postconflict Future.
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巴基斯坦的心血管疾病:想象大流行后、冲突后的未来。
DOI:
10.1161/circulationaha.122.059122
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发表时间:
2023
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
Hanif,Bashir
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作者:
Samad,Zainab;Hanif,Bashir
Pakistan. Situated at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia, Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world. In the past 30 years, our country has seen economic and industrial growth, but regional conflicts, natural disasters, and limited government investment in health have stunted progress in health indicators. Compared with our neighbors to the east, Pakistanis have a lower average lifespan (men, 67 years; women, 69 years), and because infectious diseases remain endemic, our poorly resourced health systems now grapple with the continuously rising incidence—and costly burden—of noncommunicable diseases, particularly CVDs. According to the 2019 Global Burden of Disease study, the estimated agestandardized incidence of CVD in Pakistan was 918.18 per 100 000 (global, 684.33 per 100 000) and the age-standardized death rate was 357.88 per 100 000 (global, 239.85 per 100 000). 1 In the National Socioeconomic Registry Survey, which includes demographic, socioeconomic, education, health, and asset profiling of 34 million households across Pakistan, CVDs were selfreported by 18.9% of participants. For the foreseeable future, this rising trend will continue because CVD risk factors are highly prevalent: ageadjusted comparative prevalence of diabetes is 30.8%, whereas 37% of adults have hypertension and≈ 25% of adult men smoke. In addition, the high consanguinity rate (58% married to first or second cousins) likely contributes to clustering of genetic risk. Together, these factors will fuel a large rise in CVD burden as a predominantly young population enters middle age. This will pose major challenges as health spending remains low ($43 per person; government health expenditure, 1.2% of gross domestic product), and globally, Pakistan falls in the lowest decile of universal health coverage effectiveness. 2, 3 Features of CVD specific to Pakistan include a high burden of rheumatic heart disease and early-onset coronary artery disease.