Geographic and sociodemographic variation of cardiovascular disease risk in India: A cross-sectional study of 797,540 adults.

<h4>Background</h4>Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in India. Yet, evidence on the CVD risk of India's population is limited. To inform health system planning and effective targeting of interventions, this study aimed to determine how CVD risk-and the f...

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Main Authors: Pascal Geldsetzer, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Michaela Theilmann, Justine I Davies, Ashish Awasthi, Goodarz Danaei, Thomas A Gaziano, Sebastian Vollmer, Lindsay M Jaacks, Till Bärnighausen, Rifat Atun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-06-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002581