P. Krishnam Raju

TL;DR: Very high levels of diabetes have been reported in urban areas of India, but few data are available for rural regions where >70% of the population lives, suggesting rural India may soon experience the same epidemic of diabetes.

TL;DR: The possibility of increasing cardiovascular risk factors and prevalence of vascular disease in areas of rural India represent a public health concern and larger and repeated epidemiological studies focusing on chronic diseases are required to inform treatment and prevention strategies suitable for use in these areas and other resource poor settings.

TL;DR: Equipping rural Indians with knowledge about CVRFs may ameliorate projected future increases in CVD and make healthy behavioural changes, according to their socio-economic position.

TL;DR: The authors in this paper reported that CVD is a significant health problem in India with an estimated 3.7 million (29%) deaths and 32 million (11%) disability-adjusted life-years attributed to the disease each year.

TL;DR: This region has a large disease burden attributable to cardiovascular disease with significant underuse of proven, low-cost preventive medications, particularly for rural regions.