Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

A cross-sectional study of cardiovascular disease risk clustering at different socio-geographic levels in India

  • Anne C. Bischops,
  • Jan-Walter De Neve,
  • Ashish Awasthi,
  • Sebastian Vollmer,
  • Till Bärnighausen,
  • Pascal Geldsetzer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19647-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Despite its importance for the targeting of interventions, little is known about the degree to which cardiovascular risk factors cluster within different socio-geographic levels in South Asia. Here the authors report on a cross-sectional study identifying wide variations in the clustering between risk factors and socio-geographic levels in India.