‘More health factors should be considered for healthy heart’ – The Siasat Daily

Sydney, March 7 : Managing single risk factors like blood pressure rather than looking at overall risk may be wasting scarce resources in countries where cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise, a new study finds.
Researchers looked at country-specific levels of CVD, associations with socio-demographic factors and whether WHO guidelines on the use of blood pressure medication were being followed.
They found a higher risk of CVD in lower educated and non-employed people, an overuse of medicines…

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