The Polypill in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases Key Concepts, Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions
The Polypill in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases Key Concepts, Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions
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DOI:
10.1161/circulationaha.109.873232
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发表时间:
2010-11-16
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37.8
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Yusuf, Salim
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作者:
Lonn, Eva;Bosch, Jackie;Yusuf, Salim
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the major cause of death and disability globally1 and affects approximately half of all individuals over their lifetimes. 2 The CVD burden has decreased in developed countries as effective prevention and treatment strategies were implemented, 3–5 although these gains are threatened by increasing obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and diabetes mellitus. 3 By contrast, CVD has increased in developing countries, and by the year 2020, 80% of the global CVD mortality is predicted to occur in low-and middle-income countries. 1The major risk factors for CVD are known. Nine to 10 potentially modifiable risk factors account for 90% of the population attributable risk for myocardial infarction and stroke, with similar estimates in all major regions of the world (Figure 1). 6, 7 These risk factors are ubiquitous in populations. For example, in the Framingham Study, 5% of middle-aged individuals had optimal levels of risk factors, 2 in INTERHEART, 99% of control subjects had at least 1 cardiovascular risk factor, 6 and in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys I, II, and III, the prevalence of low risk factor burden was only 4.4% during 1971–1975, 10.5% during 1988–1994, and 7.5% during 1999–2004. 8