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The moving target of global cardiovascular health

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The cardiovascular community has witnessed an important transition over the past two decades—from awareness of the global nature of the cardiovascular disease epidemic, to identification of interventions to control it, and now to a resolution that global action is urgently required.

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Figure 1: Timeline of the response to the global cardiovascular disease epidemic, highlighting the transition from awareness to resolution to action.

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Vedanthan, R., Fuster, V. The moving target of global cardiovascular health. Nat Rev Cardiol 6, 327–328 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrcardio.2009.48

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