Cardiovascular Diseases

Darwin R. Labarthe
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Darwin R. Labarthe: National Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adult and Community Health

Chapter IV.2 in Handbook of Epidemiology, 2005, pp 1363-1404 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke are the first and second leading causes of death and are major contributors to disability worldwide (Murray and Lopez 1996). Accordingly, they represent the foremost cardiovascular disease (CVD) challenges of our time. They are prominent in public health and clinical importance and have been under extensive epidemiologic investigation over the past half-century. As a result, with parallel clinical and laboratory research, understanding of the causes of and means to prevent CHD and stroke have become well established, and their present and immediate future global impact is becoming recognized (Labarthe 1998).

Keywords: Coronary Heart Disease Mortality; Prevent Heart Disease; MONICA Project; Pooling Project; Primordial Prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-26577-1_35

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