Language

English

Publication Date

4-1-2025

Journal

JACC: Advances

DOI

10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101670

PMID

40117691

PMCID

PMC11976236

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

3-21-2025

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-print

Abstract

Importance: Asia is home to 60% of the world's population, including the world's 2 most populous countries, India (1.1B) and China (1.2B). With cardiovascular disease burden and mortality increasing, the role of preventive cardiology is increasingly important.

Observations: The challenges in addressing the cardiovascular disease burden in Asia include unique cardiometabolic features of the different populations, heterogeneity of risk factors among Asian countries, differing levels of health literacy and socioeconomic status, suboptimal infrastructure to support preventive care especially in the primary care sector, high out-of-pocket costs, and environmental pollution.

Conclusions: Asia is a large continent that comprises diverse populations with varying cultures, socioeconomic status, and health literacy levels. Effective preventive cardiology may require differential health care resource allocation and financing models.

Keywords

Asia, challenges in CVD prevention, CVD prevention, primary prevention

Published Open-Access

yes

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