Cardiovascular Health in India - a Report Card from Three Urban and Rural Surveys of 22,144 Adults

• Main Authors: Roopa Shivashankar (Author), Kalpana Singh (Author), Dimple Kondal (Author), Ruby Gupta (Author), Pablo Perel (Author), Deksha Kapoor (Author), Devraj Jindal (Author), Sailesh Mohan (Author), Rajendra Pradeepa (Author), Prashant Jarhyan (Author), Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy (Author), Nikhil Tandon (Author), Viswanathan Mohan (Author), K. M. Venkat Narayan (Author), Dorairaj Prabhakaran (Author), Mohammed K. Ali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Markers of ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) predict cardiovascular events. We estimated the prevalence of ideal CVH markers in two levels of cities and villages in India. Methods: We did pooled analysis of individual-level data from three cross sectional surveys of adults ≥ 30 years ove...