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Emerging evidence highlights innovative pathways for improving primary cardiovascular disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries through population surveys, risk factor interventions, and community health workers.
Highlights the importance of population-based surveys, task-shifting to community health workers, and policy-level interventions for primary cardiovascular prevention in low- and middle-income countries.
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Moran et al. (2017) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease. Primary prevention was evaluated. Emerging evidence highlights innovative pathways for improving primary cardiovascular disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries through population surveys, risk factor interventions, and community health workers.
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