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    Home > CardioNerds > The South Asian Cardiometabolic Curse: A High-Risk Ethnic Population South Asian ethnicity is included as a risk-enhancing factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in the most recent guidelines (1). The terminology South Asian refers to a diverse group of people from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. A higher prevalence of traditional risk factors combined with unhealthy lifestyle behaviors puts this population at a disproportionately

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    This calculator is only valid if you do not already have a diagnosis of coronary heart disease (including angina or heart attack) or stroke/transient ischaemic attack. This site will be down for a couple of hours this morning (GMT) whilst the server is upgraded. This site calculates a person’s risk of developing a heart attack or stroke over the next 10 years, producing the score described in this academic paper: It presents the average risk of people with the same risk factors as those entered for that

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