Demographic and Epidemiologic Drivers of Global Cardiovascular Mortality

Global deaths from cardiovascular disease are increasing as a result of population growth, the aging of populations, and epidemiologic changes in disease. Disentangling the effects of these three drivers on trends in mortality is important for planning the future of the health care system and benchmarking progress toward the reduction of cardiovascular disease.We used mortality data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013, which includes...