EDITOR—India is widely believed to be on the verge of an epidemic of coronary heart disease, as expressed by Ghaffar et al in their clinical review.1 2 We believe this assumption to be based on weak evidence. We found one meta-analysis, reporting a ninefold increase in urban India (1-9%) and twofold increase (2-4%) in rural India between the 1960s …
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