Everyone has a heart but it may be expressed differently

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 7 Sayı: 2, 167 - 168, 30.06.2020

Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar Muhammed Shaffi

Öz

This article is not about love, as the title may suggest, but about the diseases that attack the heart. Early studies have established beyond doubt that there are socioeconomic differences in disease causation. These differences are especially prominent with respect to cardiac problems and other non-communicable diseases. Current evidence from high-income countries shows that biological, behavioural and psychosocial risk factors present in disadvantaged communities accentuate the link between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and socio-economic Status1. But these issues do not just affect high-income countries. The cultural changes in upper- and lower- middle-income countries due to increasing urbanization and globalization could be generating new risk factors.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Heart, love, express

Herkesin bir kalbi var ama farklı ifade edilebilir

Öz

This article is not about love, as the title may suggest, but about the diseases that attack the heart. Early studies have established beyond doubt that there are socioeconomic differences in disease causation. These differences are especially prominent with respect to cardiac problems and other non-communicable diseases. Current evidence from high-income countries shows that biological, behavioural and psychosocial risk factors present in disadvantaged communities accentuate the link between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and socio-economic Status1. But these issues do not just affect high-income countries. The cultural changes in upper- and lower- middle-income countries due to increasing urbanization and globalization could be generating new risk factors.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kalp, Aşk, İfade

Kaynakça

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