Global heart health guidelines

❤️ Reconsidering Cardiovascular Treatment: Why One-Size-Fits-All Guidelines Could Be Wrong for Everyone A leading cardiovascular scientist is calling on world health organizations to rethink how we determine heart health. Based on new evidence from the highly-regarded PURE (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology) study, one-size-fits-all heart health guidelines could be deceptive, and for some, even dangerous,particularly in low and middle income countries. As heart disease remains the world's number one cause of death, the findings of this study triggered an urgent call to transform the way we quantify, control, and prevent cardiovascular diseases in a range of global populations. 🌏The Global Burden of Heart Disease: A Crisis Without Borders Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) kill more than 17 million people each year, and most—some 80%—happen in the developing world. Global guidelines provide a set of common guideline recommendations for prevention, but their evidence base is heavily...