Key result
Socioeconomic development in low- and middle-income countries drives a shift in the burden of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors from the wealthy to the poor.
Highlights the urgent need for structural interventions to address the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases among the poor in developing nations.
Accepted 18 March 2013A critical question for public health is whether, inlow- and middle-income countries (LMIC), theincreasing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD)concentrates more on the advantaged or on the dis-advantaged sections of society, and how this socialpatterning of CVD changes over time. Subramanianand colleagues argue that CVD concentrates on therich in India, with limited evidence for the occurrenceof a shift towards the poor.
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Stringhini et al. (2013) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease. Socioeconomic status was evaluated. Socioeconomic development in low- and middle-income countries drives a shift in the burden of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors from the wealthy to the poor.
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