Cardiovascular disease is typically associated with the excessive lifestyle of developed countries – higher fat, salt, and sugar intake coupled with physical inactivity. But even in developing countries, heart disease is a serious problem; it kills 13 million people, more than three times the number dying from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Considering that most of the world’s population live in a developing country, heart disease is a problem too big to ignore.
Dr. Runlin Gao, a cardiologist at Fu Wai Hospital:
The total disease burden of cardiovascular disease in China is higher than in the United States and most other Western countries. …read more