Tackling cardiometabolic risk in the Asia Pacific region

Jian-Jun Li; Khung Keong Yeo; Kathyrn Tan; Junya Ako; Rungroj Krittayaphong; Ru San Tan; Philip E Aylward; CarolynS P Lam; Sang Hong Baek; Jamshed Dalal; Alan Fong; Yi-Heng Li; Richard C O'Brien; Si Ya Natalie Koh; Daniel J Scherer; Hayato Tada; Vernon Kang; Julie Butters; Stephen J Nicholls

doi:10.1016/j.ajpc.2020.100096

Tackling cardiometabolic risk in the Asia Pacific region

Am J Prev Cardiol. 2020 Nov 8:4:100096. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpc.2020.100096. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Authors

Jian-Jun Li¹, Khung Keong Yeo², Kathyrn Tan³, Junya Ako⁴, Rungroj Krittayaphong⁵, Ru San Tan², Philip E Aylward⁶, CarolynS P Lam², Sang Hong Baek⁷, Jamshed Dalal⁸, Alan Fong⁹, Yi-Heng Li¹⁰, Richard C O'Brien¹¹, Si Ya Natalie Koh², Daniel J Scherer¹², Hayato Tada¹³, Vernon Kang¹⁴, Julie Butters¹⁵, Stephen J Nicholls¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, FuWai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, BeiLiShi Road 167, Beijing 100037, China.
² National Heart Centre Singapore and Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong; Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan.
⁴ Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan.
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁶ South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
⁷ Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
⁸ Kokilaben Hospital, Mumbai, India.
⁹ Department of Cardiology, Sarawak Heart Centre; and Clinical Research Centre, Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, Malaysia.
¹⁰ National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
¹¹ University of Melbourne and Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
¹² South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Australia.
¹³ Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan.
¹⁴ Singapore Heart Foundation, Singapore.
¹⁵ Monash Cardiovascular Research Centre, Victorian Heart Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

With the global spread of abdominal obesity, cardiovascular disease continues to spread to all countries of the world. Given the large population, the challenges presented by cardiometabolic risk in the Asia Pacific region are considerable. In addition to the clinical consequences of cardiovascular disease, in terms of its morbidity and mortality, the diversity of the Asia Pacific region brings heterogeneity in approaches to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiometabolic risk. In this manuscript, we will review the current state of knowledge of cardiometabolic risk in Asia Pacific and highlight the needs moving forward to tackle this public health challenge.

Keywords: Asia pacific; Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes; Dyslipidemia; Hypertension; Risk factors.

Publication types

Review