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Review
. 2017 Feb;35(1):1-12.
doi: 10.1016/j.ccl.2016.08.004.

Global Shifts in Cardiovascular Disease, the Epidemiologic Transition, and Other Contributing Factors: Toward a New Practice of Global Health Cardiology

Walter Mendoza  1 , J Jaime Miranda  2
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Global Shifts in Cardiovascular Disease, the Epidemiologic Transition, and Other Contributing Factors: Toward a New Practice of Global Health Cardiology

Walter Mendoza et al. Cardiol Clin. 2017 Feb.

Abstract

One of the major drivers of change in the practice of cardiology is population change. This article discusses the current debate about epidemiologic transition paired with other ongoing transitions with direct relevance to cardiovascular conditions. Challenges specific to patterns of risk factors over time; readiness for disease surveillance and meeting global targets; health system, prevention, and treatment efforts; and physiologic traits and human-environment interactions are identified. This article concludes that a focus on the most populated regions of the world will contribute substantially to protecting the large gains in global survival and life expectancy accrued over the last decades.

Keywords: Cardiology; Demography; Developing countries; Epidemiology; Global health; Health transitions.

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Financial conflicts of interest The authors have nothing to disclose.

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Figure 1. Life Expectancy at age 60, selected regions, 1950 – 2100
From United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision, Key Findings and Advance Tables [Internet]. 2015 [cited 2016 May 4], with permission. Available from: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/publications/files/key_findings_wpp_2015.pdf
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