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ReviewEuropean heart journal2025

Social factors, health policy, and environment: implications for cardiovascular disease across the globe.

Scott A Lear, Martin McKee, Perry Hystad, Blake Byron Walker, Adrianna Murphy, Michael Brauer, Marjan Walli-Attaei, Annika Rosengren, Sumathy Rangarajan, Clara K Chow and 1 more

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Review in European heart journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Scott A LearFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7614-755X
Martin McKeeFaculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0121-9683
Perry HystadSchool of Nutrition and Public Health, College of Health, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
Blake Byron WalkerInstitut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Wetterkreuz 15, 91052 Erlangen, Germany.
Adrianna MurphyFaculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Michael BrauerSchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9103-9343
Marjan Walli-AttaeiHealth Economics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Annika RosengrenDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5409-6605
Sumathy RangarajanPopulation Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontaria, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2420-5986
Clara K ChowWestmead Applied Research Centre, University of Sydney and Department of Cardiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Salim YusufDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, and Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontarion, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4776-5601

Funding

Heart and Stroke Foundation of OntarioMarion W BurkePfizer/Heart and Stroke Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of deaths worldwide, with 80% occurring in low- and middle-income countries. These countries are characterized by rapid urbanization, poorly funded health systems, poor access to prevention and treatment strategies, and increasing age and a higher prevalence of chronic disease. Rapid urbanization has contributed to the significant environmental and societal changes affecting daily life habits and cardiovascular health. There is growing awareness that environmental and social exposures and policies can influence CVD directly or through behavioural risk factors. However, much of this knowledge comes from studies in high-income countries and is applied to low- and middle-income countries without evidence to indicate this is appropriate. This state-of-the-art review will present and synthesize key findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology study and related studies that have aimed to understand the environmental, social, and policy determinants of cardiovascular health in countries across varying levels of economic development through an urban/rural lens. Emerging from these findings are future policy and research recommendations to accelerate the reduction of the global burden of CVD.

Indexed as

Cardiovascular DiseasesHealth PolicyGlobal HealthHumansRisk FactorsSocial Determinants of HealthSocial EnvironmentSocioeconomic FactorsUrbanizationAccess to careCardiovascular diseaseDietEnvironmentPhysical activityPollutionSocial determinants

Identifiers

PMID40259769
PMCPMC12342468

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