George A. Mensah

Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper ...

Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015

In international surveys, although there is uncertainty in some estimates, the rate of elevated SBP (≥110-115 and ≥140 mm Hg) increased substantially between 1990 and 2015, and ...

Demographic and Epidemiologic Drivers of Global Cardiovascular Mortality

The aging and growth of the population resulted in an increase in global cardiovascular deaths between 1990 and 2013, despite a decrease in age-specific death rates in most regi...

The Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors

Decline in Cardiovascular Mortality

If the control of infectious diseases was the public health success story of the first half of the 20th century, then the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease and st...

Worldwide Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation

Background— The global burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) is unknown. Methods and Results— We systematically reviewed population-based studies of AF published from 1980 to 2010 ...

Case Definitions for Acute Coronary Heart Disease in Epidemiology and Clinical Research Studies

HomeCirculationVol. 108, No. 20Case Definitions for Acute Coronary Heart Disease in Epidemiology and Clinical Research Studies

Refocusing the Agenda on Cardiovascular Guidelines

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015