Why the study?
Cardiovascular diseases drive high all-cause mortality in Russia, prompting the need for unbiased epidemiological data on the prevalence of CVDs and their risk factors across Russian regions.
Population
Population in 13 Russian regions
Design
Multicenter cross-sectional study
Authors
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Provides foundational epidemiological data on cardiovascular risk in Russia; leaves open the need for targeted, prospective interventions to.
The ESSE-RF study provides large-scale epidemiological data on the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and risk factors across 13 regions in the Russian Federation.
Boytsov et al. (2021) studied this question.