Preventing chronic disease deaths: Targeting CVD will meet 75% of global goal
December 5, 2007 by Lisa Nainggolan
London, UK- Using a multidrug regimen to prevent cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low- and middle-income countries could avert 18 million deaths over 10 years, Dr Stephen S Lim (University of Washington, Seattle) told a Lancet press conference in London yesterday. The move, which would involve just a moderate increase in health expenditure of slightly more than $1 per person per year, would meet three-quarters of the proposed global goal to reduce chronic disease death rates in a decade, proposed in 2005, Lim said. His paper on the health effects and costs of preventing cardiovascular disease in 23 chosen developing countries (list attached below) is published online in the Lancet today [1], along with four other papers on the burdens and costs of chronic disease [2], scaling up interventions for chronic disease prevention [3], the costs of such strategies [4], and a "call to action" [5]
Lancet editor Dr Richard Horton told the press conference: "There has been a failure by the scientific community to provide the information surrounding noncommunicable diseases. Now there is no excuse." This latest report on chronic disease "lays down the scientific foundations to build civil society and professional advocacy and so change global policy," he said. Lead author of the "call-to-action" paper, Dr Robert Beaglehole (University of Auckland, New Zealand), who was formerly with World Health Organization (WHO), said: "The science we have heard about this morning is groundbreaking. It shows without a doubt that we have the evidence to make a huge impact by preventing chronic diseases. We can do this. We can save millions of lives by 2015."
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Source: Nainggolan, Lisa . "Preventing chronic disease deaths: Targeting CVD will meet 75% of global goal ." Lancet 2007
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