Global, multicenter study involving 1.55 million participants found similar associations of risk factors
Global, multicenter study involving 1.55 million participants found similar associations of risk factors
A global, multicenter study with more than 1.55 million participants showed that risk factors for heart disease were similar in high-, low- and middle-income countries, and between both men and women at large, with only a few differences. with, recent results knife publication is shown.
Performed as part of an ongoing Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study in 21 countries, 1,55,724 (58.4% females 41.6% males) participants were enrolled and their children were tested between January 5, 2005 and September 13, 2021. was followed. In this period, women had 4,280 major heart diseases, while among men, it was 4,911. Compared to men, women presented with a more favorable cardiovascular risk profile, especially at a younger age, author Marjan Wali-Atai and others Have said
The study also found that lipid markers (cholesterol) and depression are more strongly associated with heart disease risk in men than in women, while diet is more strongly associated with the same risk in women than in men. The authors conclude that the similar association of other risk factors with cardiovascular disease in women and men emphasizes the importance of similar strategies for prevention of cardiovascular disease in men and women. Importantly, the patterns of these findings were generally similar in high-income countries and upper-middle-income countries, and in low-income and lower-middle-income countries.
India’s partners for the study include the Eternal Heart Care Center and Research Institute, Jaipur; Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialty Centre, Chennai; India SUT Academy of Medical Sciences, Vattapara, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala; Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh; and Department of Physiology, St. John’s Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore.
V. Mohan of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, one of the study’s authors, says: “This is the first study to compare cardiovascular disease in 21 high, middle and low income countries, with all risk factors being studied roughly equal. The distribution of men and women.” He said that despite small differences in heart disease risk factors between women and men, the study makes it clear that strategies to prevent heart disease in both women and men should be similar.