Highlights the substantial and largely preventable global burden of cardiovascular diseases among youths and young adults aged 15-39, emphasizing the need for targeted primary prevention.
There is a substantial global burden of CVDs in youths and young adults in 2019. The burden of overall and type-specific CVDs varied by age, sex, SDI, region, and country. CVDs in young people are largely preventable, which deserve more attention in the targeted implementation of effective primary prevention strategies and expansion of young-people's responsive healthcare systems.
Sun et al. (2023) studied this question.