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- Title
Effectiveness and costs of interventions to lower systolic blood pressure and cholesterol: a global and regional analysis on reduction of cardiovascular-disease risk.
- Authors
Murray, Christopher J L; Lauer, Jeremy A; Hutubessy, Raymond C W; Niessen, Louis; Tomijima, Niels; Rodgers, Anthony; Lawes, Carlene M M; Evans, David B
- Abstract
Cardiovascular disease accounts for much morbidity and mortality in developed countries and is becoming increasingly important in less developed regions. Systolic blood pressure above 115 mm Hg accounts for two-thirds of strokes and almost half of ischaemic heart disease cases, and cholesterol concentrations exceeding 3.8 mmol/L for 18% and 55%, respectively. We report estimates of the population health effects, and costs of selected interventions to reduce the risks associated with high cholesterol concentrations and blood pressure in areas of the world with differing epidemiological profiles.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2003, Vol 361, Issue 9359, p717
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12655-4