Back to the topic: high cardiovascular mortality in Russia

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Sergei V Jargin. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;75(3):311.

doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-215683. Epub 2020 Oct 31.

¹ Department of Public Health, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moskva, Russian Federation sjargin@mail.ru.

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Keywords: Eastern Europe; Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease; Hypertension.

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Competing interests: None declared.

Why does Russia have such high cardiovascular mortality rates? Comparisons of blood-based biomarkers with Norway implicate non-ischaemic cardiac damage.
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