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Joaquim Cardoso MSc
Chief Research and Strategy Officer (CRSO),
Editor in Chief and Senior Advisor
June 13, 2023
Key Message(s):
- Overall, 38% of premature deaths from NCDs were caused by CVDs in 2015[1].
- Ischaemic heart disease was the leading cause of premature death among all NCDs in most countries for both men and women.
EXCERPT
Premature mortality from NCDs refer to deaths between the ages of 30 and 70 years of age.
In addition to the tragedy of this loss of life, these deaths impact societies, and economies more broadly.
- Overall, 38% of premature deaths from NCDs were caused by CVDs in 2015[1].
- Ischaemic heart disease was the leading cause of premature death among all NCDs in most countries for both men and women.
- The highest risk of premature mortality[2] from ischaemic heart disease in 2015 was seen in countries in the Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia region (men in Belarus recorded the highest risk of premature mortality, …
- … with a 20.2% probability of premature death), and in the North Africa and Middle East region.
- Ischaemic heart disease in men was also highest in the Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia region (Figure 9).
The risk of premature mortality due to haemorrhagic stroke was
- as high as 10.3% in Mongolia and
- 9.6% in Turkmenistan among men and
- 6.4% in Mongolia and
- 5.9% in Sierra Leone among women.
The highest risk of premature mortality due to ischaemic stroke for women was observed in countries
- in the Sub-Saharan Africa region (around 3.0% probability of premature death),
- particularly Western African countries, such as Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire.
- For all other cardiovascular diseases, the risk of premature mortality among women was similarly highest in the Sub Saharan Africa region.
Figure 9 — Probability of dying prematurely (between 30 and 70 years of age) from ischaemic heart disease, by sex, 2015. Countries and territories without data are shown in grey
References:
[1] The latest year for which data on the risk of premature mortality is available.
[2] Expressed as the probability of dying from CVD between exactly 30 years and exactly 70 years of age. The probability of death is calculated in the absence of competing causes of death so that only the risk of dying from the specific cause is measured.
Original Publication:
Full version
World heart report 2023 — Confronting the world’s number one killer
World Heart Federation (WHF).
Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Thomas Gaziano, Lisa Hadeed, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Diana Vaca McGhie, Jeremiah Mwangi, Borjana Pervan, Pablo Perel, Daniel Piñeiro, Sean Taylor, Fausto Pinto.
Reviewers: Victor Aboyans, Álvaro Avezum, Rick Chazal, Jean-Luc Eiselé, Naomi Herz, Andre Pascal Kengne, Angela Koh, Amam Mbakwem, Jagat Narula, Gregory Roth, Saate Shakil.
Editor: Edward Fox.
The World Heart Report 2023 was made possible through support from Novartis Foundation.
