Overview of coronary heart disease risk initiatives in south Asia

Authors

Ankur Kalra, Kalra Hospital SRCNC, India
Deepak L. Bhatt, Harvard Medical School, United States
Sanjay Rajagopalan, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Kunal Suri, Kalra Hospital SRCNC, India
Sundeep Mishra, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Romaina Iqbal, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Salim S. Virani, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovations, United StatesFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Community Health Sciences; Cardiology; Office of the Provost

Abstract

Purpose of review: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Industrialization and economic growth have led to an unprecedented increment in the burden of CVD and their risk factors in less industrialized regions of the world. While there are abundant data on CVD and their risk factors from longitudinal cohort studies done in the West, good-quality data from South Asia are lacking.
Recent findings: Several multi-institutional, observational, prospective registries, and epidemiologic cohorts in South Asia have been established to systematically evaluate the burden of CVD and their risk factors. The PINNACLE (Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence) India Quality Improvement Program (PIQIP), the Kerala Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS), and Trivandrum Heart Failure registries have focused on secondary prevention of CVD and performance measurement in both outpatient and inpatient settings, respectively. The Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE), Centre for Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia (CARRS), and other epidemiologic and genetic studies have focused on primary prevention of CVD and evaluated variables such as environment, smoking, physical activity, health systems, food and nutrition policy, dietary consumption patterns, socioeconomic factors, and healthy neighborhoods. The international cardiovascular community has been responsive to a burgeoning cardiovascular disease burden in South Asia. Several collaborations have formed between the West (North America in particular) and South Asia to catalyze evidence-based and data-driven changes in the federal health policy in this part of the world to promote cardiovascular health and mitigate cardiovascular risk.

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Publication (Name of Journal)

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Recommended Citation

Kalra, A., Bhatt, D. L., Rajagopalan, S., Suri, K., Mishra, S., Iqbal, R., Virani, S. S. (2017). Overview of coronary heart disease risk initiatives in south Asia. Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 19(6), 25.
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