Sustainable Development Goal 3 is unlikely to be achieved without renewed effort

Approximately 80% of worldwide cardiovascular disease deaths, including ischaemic heart disease and stroke, occur in low-income and middle-income countries.1 Despite the social and economic burden of these deaths in such countries, research on the epidemiology, treatment, and risk markers for cardiovascular disease deaths has been scarce, preventing the development of essential evidence-based policies to address the burden.