Egle Silva

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data for exposure to risk factors by country, age group, and sex from pooled analyses of population-based health surveys and obtained relative risks for the eff ects of risk factors on cause-specifi c mortality from meta-analyses of large prospective studies.

TL;DR: It is suggested that MS is found in approximately one-third of the Venezuelan adult population in Zulia State, with higher prevalence in men related to the presence of dyslipidemia, and lifestyle interventions in MS subjects are needed in Venezuela to halt the burden of CV disease and diabetes.

TL;DR: Major cardiovascular risk factors are highly prevalent in LAC region, in particular low HDL-cholesterol, and marked differences do exist in this prevalence profile between LAC and the US.

TL;DR: The analysis showed an unbalanced distribution of WCH and masked hypertension patterns among different continents, suggesting an interplay of genetic and environmental factors, and likely also different healthcare administrative and practice patterns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an update of previous recommendations on home blood pressure monitoring from the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability sequentially published in years 2000, 2008 and 2010.